RPAD
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Pads the end of a string up to the specified character length.
Syntax
RPAD (str, len, padding)
Arguments
- 
        
str: any string or binary object
 - 
        
len: total length of the string
 - 
        
padding: the characters to pad with
 
Return Type
String
Examples
SELECT RPAD('ohai',10,'_') as o;
+------------+
| o          |
+------------+
| ohai______ |
+------------+SELECT RPAD('123',10,'0') as o;
+------------+
| o          |
+------------+
| 1230000000 |
+------------+Warning
Implicit Collation
When character_ is set to utf8, string literals with characters using 4-byte encoding are implicitly assigned binary collation and processed as a sequence of bytes rather than characters.utf8mb4 character set.
For more information, refer to Implicit Collation in Special Cases.
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Last modified: February 27, 2023