Oracle 5.0 Reference Manual page 911

mysql> SET @str = BINARY 'New York';
mysql> SELECT LOWER(@str), LOWER(CONVERT(@str USING latin1));
+-------------+-----------------------------------+
| LOWER(@str) | LOWER(CONVERT(@str USING latin1)) |
+-------------+-----------------------------------+
| New York | new york
+-------------+-----------------------------------+
This function is multi-byte safe.
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LPAD(str,len,padstr)
Returns the string str, left-padded with the string
longer than len, the return value is shortened to
mysql> SELECT LPAD('hi',4,'??');
-> '??hi'
mysql> SELECT LPAD('hi',1,'??');
-> 'h'
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LTRIM(str)
Returns the string
str
mysql> SELECT LTRIM('
-> 'barbar'
This function is multi-byte safe.
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MAKE_SET(bits,str1,str2,...)
Returns a set value (a string containing substrings separated by "," characters) consisting of the
strings that have the corresponding bit in
on. values in str1, str2,
NULL
mysql> SELECT MAKE_SET(1,'a','b','c');
-> 'a'
mysql> SELECT MAKE_SET(1 | 4,'hello','nice','world');
-> 'hello,world'
mysql> SELECT MAKE_SET(1 | 4,'hello','nice',NULL,'world');
-> 'hello'
mysql> SELECT MAKE_SET(0,'a','b','c');
-> ''
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MID(str,pos,len)
MID(str,pos,len)
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OCT(N)
Returns a string representation of the octal value of N, where
is equivalent to
CONV(N,10,8)
mysql> SELECT OCT(12);
-> '14'
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OCTET_LENGTH(str)
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OCTET_LENGTH()
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ORD(str)
If the leftmost character of the string
character, calculated from the numeric values of its constituent bytes using this formula:
(1st byte code)
String Functions
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with leading space characters removed.
barbar');
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bits
are not appended to the result.
...
[891]
[891] is a synonym for
SUBSTRING(str,pos,len)
[909]. Returns
[891]
is a synonym for
LENGTH()
is a multi-byte character, returns the code for that
str
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to a length of
padstr
characters.
len
set. corresponds to bit 0,
str1
is a longlong (BIGINT) number. This
N
if is NULL.
NULL N
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characters. If
len str
to bit 1, and so
str2
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is