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-This shows an example a customer function using Dremio's internal APIs. The example has the signature example_concat_op(<varchar>, <varchar) and returns a new varchar. It can be used by copying the built jar file into the Dremio jars directory.
+This shows an example a customer function using Dremio's internal APIs. The example has the signature example_concat_op(\<varchar\>, \<varchar\>) and returns a new varchar. It can be used by copying the built jar file into the Dremio jars directory.
 
 Example Usage:
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