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functions	coalesce function	docs-funcs-collection-coalesce-x	The coalesce function takes any number of string arguments and returns the first one that isn't empty.

`coalesce` Function

coalesce takes any number of string arguments and returns the first one that isn't empty.

Examples

> coalesce("a", "b")
a
> coalesce("", "b")
b

To perform the coalesce operation with a list of strings, use the ... symbol to expand the list as arguments:

> coalesce(["", "b"]...)
b

coalescelist performs a similar operation with list arguments rather than string arguments.