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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, CUBRID, DB2, FIREBIRD, H2, HANA, HSQLDB, INFORMIX, INGRES, 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')
-- DERBY, REDSHIFT
/* UNSUPPORTED */
(These are currently generated with jOOQ 3.14, see #10141)
