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RPAD

Applies to ✅ Open Source Edition   ✅ Express Edition   ✅ Professional Edition   ✅ Enterprise Edition

The RPAD() pads a string at the right end. See also LPAD.

SELECT rpad('hello', 10, '.');
create.select(rpad(val("hello"), 10, '.')).fetch();

The result being

+------------+
| rpad       |
+------------+
| hello..... |
+------------+

Dialect support

This example using jOOQ:

rpad(val("hello"), 10, '.')

Translates to the following dialect specific expressions:

Access

('hello' & replace(space(10 - len('hello')), ' ', '.'))

ASE

('hello' || replicate(
  '.',
  (10 - char_length('hello'))
))

Aurora MySQL, Aurora Postgres, CockroachDB, DB2, Firebird, H2, HSQLDB, Hana, Informix, MariaDB, MemSQL, MySQL, Oracle, Postgres, Teradata, Vertica

rpad('hello', 10, '.')

SQLDataWarehouse, SQLServer

('hello' + replicate(
  '.',
  (10 - len('hello'))
))

SQLite

'hello' || substr(replace(hex(zeroblob(10)), '00', '.'), 1, 10 - length('hello'))

Sybase

('hello' || repeat(
  '.',
  (10 - length('hello'))
))

BigQuery, ClickHouse, Derby, DuckDB, Exasol, Redshift, Snowflake, Trino, YugabyteDB

/* UNSUPPORTED */
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