7.33 STRLTRIM

Use the @STRLTRIM function to trim leading spaces.

For this function, Oracle GoldenGate supports the use of an escape sequence to represent characters in a string column in Unicode or in the native character encoding of the Microsoft Windows, UNIX, and Linux operating systems. The target column must be a SQL Unicode data type if any argument is supplied as Unicode.

Syntax

@STRLTRIM (string)

string

The name of a character column or a literal string that is enclosed within single quote marks.

Example

birth_state = @strltrim (state)