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LTRIM
Applies to ✅ Open Source Edition ✅ Express Edition ✅ Professional Edition ✅ Enterprise Edition
The LTRIM() function trims a string from the left end, stripping it of whitespace. See also RTRIM and TRIM.
SELECT ltrim(' hello ');
create.select(ltrim(" hello ")).fetch();
The result being
+---------+ | ltrim | +---------+ | hello | +---------+
Dialect support
This example using jOOQ:
ltrim(" hello ")
Translates to the following dialect specific expressions:
ASE, Access, Aurora MySQL, Aurora Postgres, BigQuery, ClickHouse, CockroachDB, DB2, Derby, DuckDB, Exasol, H2, HSQLDB, Hana, Informix, MariaDB, MemSQL, MySQL, Oracle, Postgres, Redshift, SQLDataWarehouse, SQLServer, SQLite, Snowflake, Sybase, Teradata, Trino, Vertica, YugabyteDB
ltrim(' hello ')
Firebird
trim(LEADING FROM ' hello ')
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