Character manipulation functions Give some examples

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What are character manipulation functions in SQL Sever Give some examples

Pankajkumar Patel · Answer

Hi Kiran Kumar, Character manipulation functions are used to modify, extract, analyze string data, etc. Useful when working with textual data in queries, reports, stored procedures, etc. Following are common character manipulation functions in SQL Server: No Function Use or description 1 LEN() Returns the number of characters in a string (excluding trailing spaces) 2 LEFT() and RIGHT() Extracts a specified number of characters from the left or right side of a string 3 SUBSTRING() Extracts a substring from a string starting at a specified position 4 CHARINDEX() Returns the position of a substring within a string 5 REPLACE() Replaces all occurrences of a substring with another substring 6 LTRIM() and RTRIM() Removes leading or trailing spaces from a string 7 UPPER() and LOWER() Converts a string to uppercase or lowercase 8 REPLICATE() Repeats a string a specified number of times 9 REVERSE() Reverses the characters in a string Examples: SELECT LEN('Pankaj Patel') AS Length;-- Output: 12 SELECT LEFT('Pankaj Patel', 6) AS FirstName;-- Output: Pankaj SELECT RIGHT('Pankaj Patel', 5) AS LastPart;-- Output: Patel SELECT SUBSTRING('Pankaj Patel', 8, 5) AS LastName;-- Output: Patel SELECT CHARINDEX('Patel', 'Pankaj Patel') AS Position;-- Output: 8 SELECT REPLACE('Hello World', 'World', 'SQL') AS ReplacedText;-- Output: Hello SQL SELECT LTRIM(' Hello') AS NoLeadingSpaces; SELECT RTRIM('Hello ') AS NoTrailingSpaces; SELECT UPPER('sql server') AS UpperCase;-- Output: SQL SERVER SELECT LOWER('SQL SERVER') AS LowerCase;-- Output: sql server SELECT REPLICATE('*', 5) AS Stars;-- Output: ***** SELECT REVERSE('SQL') AS Reversed;-- Output: LQS Hope this will help you!

Nikhil Patil · Answer

In SQL Server , character manipulation functions are built-in string functions that allow you to manipulate, search, and transform character (string) data. These functions are especially useful when dealing with text-based data stored in CHAR , VARCHAR , NCHAR , or NVARCHAR columns. 1. LEN() – Get the length of a string (number of characters) SELECT LEN('SQL Server') AS Length; -- Output: 10 2. LTRIM() and RTRIM() – Remove leading or trailing spaces SELECT LTRIM(' Hello') AS NoLeadingSpaces; -- Output: 'Hello' SELECT RTRIM('Hello ') AS NoTrailingSpaces; -- Output: 'Hello'

Character manipulation functions Give some examples

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