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translate

Replaces each character in string that matches a character in the from set with the corresponding character in the to set.

Reading PG 18current·documented in 27 of 27 versions, 7.1 to 20

7.1 7.2 7.3 7.4 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 8.4 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 9.4 9.5 9.6 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20

Signatures & examples

translate ( string text, from text, to text ) → text

Replaces each character in string that matches a character in the from set with the corresponding character in the to set. If from is longer than to, occurrences of the extra characters in from are deleted.

translate('12345', '143', 'ax') → a2x5

Version history 2

12 → 13 changed
9.0 → 9.1 changed

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