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RPAD

Uses a given padstring to right pad a string to a certain size.

Syntax

RPAD(STRING, SIZE, PADSTRING)

Arguments

STRING

Type: string

The string to be padded.

SIZE

Type: bigint

A non-negative integer specifying the length of the result string.

PADSTRING

Type: string

The string to use for padding. This must be non-empty.

Returns

Type: string

STRING right padded to SIZE with PADSTRING.

If SIZE is less than the length of STRING, the result is truncated to SIZE characters.


Examples

STRING SIZE PADSTRING Output
Call me Ishmael. Some years ago 7 Call me
drizzly November 16 . drizzly November
right 1 r
what 9 ?! what?!?!?
`null` 9 `''` `null`
hi 5 five hifiv

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