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, HANA, HSQLDB, 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, DERBY, EXASOL, REDSHIFT, SNOWFLAKE, YUGABYTEDB
/* UNSUPPORTED */

(These are currently generated with jOOQ 3.18, see #10141), or translate your own on our website

The jOOQ User Manual : SQL building : Column expressions : String functions : LPAD

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