RTRIM

Syntax

Description of the illustration rtrim.eps

Purpose

RTRIM removes from the right end of char all of the characters that appear in set. This function is useful for formatting the output of a query.

If you do not specify set, then it defaults to a single blank. RTRIM works similarly to LTRIM.

Both char and set can be any of the data types CHAR, VARCHAR2, NCHAR, NVARCHAR2, CLOB, or NCLOB. The string returned is of VARCHAR2 data type if char is a character data type, NVARCHAR2 if char is a national character data type, and a LOB if char is a LOB data type.

See Also:

• LTRIM

• Appendix C in Oracle Database Globalization Support Guide for the collation determination rules, which define the collation RTRIM uses to compare characters from set with characters from char, and for the collation derivation rules, which define the collation assigned to the character return value of this function

Examples

The following example trims all the right-most occurrences of less than sign (<), greater than sign (>) , and equal sign (=) from a string:

SELECT RTRIM('<=====>BROWNING<=====>', '<>=') "RTRIM Example"
  FROM DUAL;

RTRIM Example
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<=====>BROWNING