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LPAD
Applies to ✅ Open Source Edition ✅ Express Edition ✅ Professional Edition ✅ Enterprise Edition
The LPAD() pads a string at the left end. See also RPAD.
SELECT lpad('hello', 10, '.');
create.select(lpad(val("hello"), 10, '.')).fetch();
The result being
+------------+ | lpad | +------------+ | .....hello | +------------+
Dialect support
This example using jOOQ:
lpad(val("hello"), 10, '.')
Translates to the following dialect specific expressions:
Access
(replace(space(10 - len('hello')), ' ', '.') & 'hello')
ASE
(replicate(
'.',
(10 - char_length('hello'))
) || 'hello')
Aurora MySQL, Aurora Postgres, CockroachDB, DB2, Firebird, H2, HSQLDB, Hana, Informix, MariaDB, MemSQL, MySQL, Oracle, Postgres, Teradata, Vertica
lpad('hello', 10, '.')
SQLDataWarehouse, SQLServer
(replicate(
'.',
(10 - len('hello'))
) + 'hello')
SQLite
substr(replace(hex(zeroblob(10)), '00', '.'), 1, 10 - length('hello')) || 'hello'
Sybase
(repeat(
'.',
(10 - length('hello'))
) || 'hello')
BigQuery, ClickHouse, Databricks, Derby, DuckDB, Exasol, Redshift, Snowflake, Trino, YugabyteDB
/* UNSUPPORTED */
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