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TRANSLATE

Applies to ✅ Open Source Edition   ✅ Express Edition   ✅ Professional Edition   ✅ Enterprise Edition

The TRANSLATE() function translates a set of characters to another set of characters within a string, based on matching positions within the search and replacement string.

SELECT translate('1 * [2 + 3]', '[]', '()');
create.select(translate(val("1 * [2 + 3]"), "[]", "()")).fetch();

The result being

+-------------+
| translate   |
+-------------+
| 1 * (2 + 3) |
+-------------+

Dialect support

This example using jOOQ:

translate(val("1 * [2 + 3]"), "[]", "()")

Translates to the following dialect specific expressions:

Aurora Postgres, BigQuery, ClickHouse, CockroachDB, Exasol, H2, HSQLDB, Oracle, Postgres, SQLServer, Snowflake, Trino, Vertica, YugabyteDB

translate('1 * [2 + 3]', '[]', '()')

DB2

translate('1 * [2 + 3]', '()', '[]')

Teradata

otranslate('1 * [2 + 3]', '[]', '()')

ASE, Access, Aurora MySQL, Derby, DuckDB, Firebird, Hana, Informix, MariaDB, MemSQL, MySQL, Redshift, SQLDataWarehouse, SQLite, Sybase

/* UNSUPPORTED */

(These are currently generated with jOOQ 3.20, see #10141), or translate your own on our website

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