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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, Databricks, Exasol, H2, HSQLDB, Oracle, Postgres, Redshift, 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, SQLDataWarehouse, SQLite, Sybase
/* UNSUPPORTED */
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