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FUNCTIONS / STRING FUNCTIONS AND OPERATORS

right

Read PG 18 manual ↗

Returns last n characters in the string, or when n is negative, returns all but first |n| characters.

Signatures & examples

right ( string text, n integer ) → text
Returns last n characters in the string, or when n is negative, returns all but first |n| characters.
right('abcde', 2) → de
Version history 2
  1. PG 12 → 13changed
  2. PG 9.0 → 9.1added

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