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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, COCKROACHDB, EXASOL, H2, HSQLDB, ORACLE, POSTGRES, SNOWFLAKE, SQLSERVER, VERTICA, YUGABYTEDB
translate('1 * [2 + 3]', '[]', '()')
-- DB2
translate('1 * [2 + 3]', '()', '[]')
-- TERADATA
otranslate('1 * [2 + 3]', '[]', '()')
-- ACCESS, ASE, AURORA_MYSQL, DERBY, FIREBIRD, HANA, INFORMIX, MARIADB, MEMSQL, MYSQL, REDSHIFT, SQLDATAWAREHOUSE, SQLITE,
-- SYBASE
/* UNSUPPORTED */
(These are currently generated with jOOQ 3.18, see #10141), or translate your own on our website
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