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LTRIM
Applies to ✅ Open Source Edition ✅ Express Edition ✅ Professional Edition ✅ Enterprise Edition
The LTRIM() function trims a string from the left end, stripping it of whitespace. See also RTRIM and TRIM.
SELECT ltrim(' hello ');
create.select(ltrim(" hello ")).fetch();
The result being
+---------+ | ltrim | +---------+ | hello | +---------+
Dialect support
This example using jOOQ:
ltrim(" hello ")
Translates to the following dialect specific expressions:
-- ACCESS, ASE, AURORA_MYSQL, AURORA_POSTGRES, COCKROACHDB, CUBRID, DB2, DERBY, H2, HANA, HSQLDB, INFORMIX, INGRES, MARIADB,
-- MEMSQL, MYSQL, ORACLE, POSTGRES, REDSHIFT, SQLDATAWAREHOUSE, SQLITE, SQLSERVER, SYBASE, TERADATA, VERTICA
ltrim(' hello ')
-- FIREBIRD
trim(LEADING FROM ' hello ')
(These are currently generated with jOOQ 3.15, see #10141)
