TRIM

Syntax

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Purpose

TRIM enables you to trim leading or trailing characters (or both) from a character string. If trim_character ortrim_source is a character literal, then you must enclose it in single quotes.

If you specify LEADING, then Oracle Database removes any leading characters equal to trim_character.
If you specify TRAILING, then Oracle removes any trailing characters equal to trim_character.
If you specify BOTH or none of the three, then Oracle removes leading and trailing characters equal totrim_character.
If you do not specify trim_character, then the default value is a blank space.
If you specify only trim_source, then Oracle removes leading and trailing blank spaces.
The function returns a value with datatype VARCHAR2. The maximum length of the value is the length oftrim_source.
If either trim_source or trim_character is null, then the TRIM function returns null.

Both trim_character and trim_source can be any of the datatypes CHAR, VARCHAR2, NCHAR, NVARCHAR2, CLOB, orNCLOB. The string returned is of VARCHAR2 datatype if trim_source is a character datatype and a LOB iftrim_source is a LOB datatype. The return string is in the same character set as trim_source.

Examples

This example trims leading zeroes from the hire date of the employees in the hr schema:

SELECT employee_id,
      TO_CHAR(TRIM(LEADING 0 FROM hire_date))
      FROM employees
      WHERE department_id = 60;

EMPLOYEE_ID TO_CHAR(T
----------- ---------
        103 3-JAN-90
        104 21-MAY-91
        105 25-JUN-97
        106 5-FEB-98
        107 7-FEB-99

http://docs.oracle.com/cd/B19306_01/server.102/b14200/functions199.htm#i79689

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