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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, 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, TRINO, YUGABYTEDB
/* UNSUPPORTED */
(These are currently generated with jOOQ 3.19, see #10141), or translate your own on our website
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