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TRIM

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

The TRIM() function trims a string from both ends, stripping it of whitespace. See also LTRIM and RTRIM.

SELECT trim('  hello  ');
create.select(trim("  hello  ")).fetch();

The result being

+-------+
| trim  |
+-------+
| hello |
+-------+

Dialect support

This example using jOOQ:

trim("  hello  ")

Translates to the following dialect specific expressions:

-- ACCESS, AURORA_MYSQL, AURORA_POSTGRES, BIGQUERY, COCKROACHDB, DB2, DERBY, DUCKDB, EXASOL, FIREBIRD, H2, HANA, HSQLDB, 
-- INFORMIX, MARIADB, MEMSQL, MYSQL, ORACLE, POSTGRES, REDSHIFT, SNOWFLAKE, SQLITE, SQLSERVER, SYBASE, TERADATA, TRINO, 
-- VERTICA, YUGABYTEDB
trim('  hello  ')

-- ASE, SQLDATAWAREHOUSE
ltrim(rtrim('  hello  '))

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

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