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TRIM
Applies to ✅ Open Source Edition ✅ Express Edition ✅ Professional Edition ✅ Enterprise Edition
The TRIM() function trims a string from both ends, stripping it of whitespace. See also LTRIM and RTRIM.
SELECT trim(' hello ');
create.select(trim(" hello ")).fetch();
The result being
+-------+ | trim | +-------+ | hello | +-------+
Dialect support
This example using jOOQ:
trim(" hello ")
Translates to the following dialect specific expressions:
-- ACCESS, AURORA_MYSQL, AURORA_POSTGRES, COCKROACHDB, CUBRID, DB2, DERBY, FIREBIRD, H2, HANA, HSQLDB, INFORMIX, MARIADB,
-- MEMSQL, MYSQL, ORACLE, POSTGRES, REDSHIFT, SQLITE, SQLSERVER, SYBASE, TERADATA, VERTICA
trim(' hello ')
-- ASE, INGRES, SQLDATAWAREHOUSE
ltrim(rtrim(' hello '))
(These are currently generated with jOOQ 3.14, see #10141)
