Version: 1.0.x

string

Notice: Some of the examples below are referenced from ClickHouse Documentation but have been adapted and modified to work in ByConity.

CHARACTER_LENGTH

Returns the length of a string in Unicode code points (not in characters), assuming that the string contains a set of bytes that make up UTF-8 encoded text. If this assumption is not met, it returns some result (it does not throw an exception).

Syntax

CHARACTER_LENGTH(string)

Arguments

string – The String.

Returned value

The length of Char.

Type: UInt64

Example

select CHARACTER_LENGTH('abcdef123');

Result:

┌─CHARACTER_LENGTH('abcdef123')─┐
│ 9                             │
└───────────────────────────────┘

TODO：is this one same as CHAR_LENGTH ?

CHAR_LENGTH

Syntax

CHAR_LENGTH(s)

Arguments

s – The string.

Returned value

The length of char.

Type: UInt64

Example

SELECT CHAR_LENGTH('abcdef123');

Result:

┌─CHAR_LENGTH('abcdef123')─┐
│ 9                        │
└──────────────────────────┘

alphaTokens

Selects substrings of consecutive bytes from the ranges a-z and A-Z.Returns an array of substrings.

Syntax

alphaTokens(string)

Arguments

string – The string.

Returned value

The array of substrings.

Example

SELECT alphaTokens('abca1abc');

┌─alphaTokens('abca1abc')─┐
│ [abca, abc]             │
└─────────────────────────┘

appendTrailingCharIfAbsent

If the string is non-empty and does not contain the character at the end, it appends the character to the end.

Syntax

appendTrailingCharIfAbsent(string, character)

Arguments

string – The string.
character – the character.

Returned value

The character appended to string.

Type: string

Example

SELECT appendTrailingCharIfAbsent('abc', '2');

Result:

┌─appendTrailingCharIfAbsent('abc', '2')─┐
│ abc2                                   │
└────────────────────────────────────────┘

arrayStringConcat

Concatenates the strings listed in the array with the separator.separator is an optional parameter: a constant string, set to an empty string by default.

Syntax

arrayStringConcat(array[, separator])

Arguments

array – The array.
separator – optional, separator.

Returned value

The concated string.

Type: string

Example

SELECT arrayStringConcat(['abc','123']);

Result:

┌─arrayStringConcat(['abc', '123'])─┐
│ abc123                            │
└───────────────────────────────────┘

other example

SELECT arrayStringConcat(['abc', '123'], ',');

Result:

┌─arrayStringConcat(['abc', '123'], ',')─┐
│ abc,123                                │
└────────────────────────────────────────┘

base64Decode

Decode base64-encoded string into original string. In case of failure raises an exception.

Alias: FROM_BASE64 .

Syntax

base64Decode(string)

Arguments

string – The string.

Returned value

The decoded string.
Example

SELECT base64Decode('SGVsbG8gQmFzZTY0');

Result:

┌─base64Decode('SGVsbG8gQmFzZTY0')─┐
│ Hello Base64                     │
└──────────────────────────────────┘

base64Encode

Encodes string into base64

Alias: TO_BASE64 .

Syntax

base64Encode(string)

Arguments

string – The string.

Returned value

The encoded string.
Example

SELECT base64Encode('Hello Base64');

Result:

┌─base64Encode('Hello Base64')─┐
│ SGVsbG8gQmFzZTY0             │
└──────────────────────────────┘

concat

Concatenates the strings listed in the arguments, without a separator.

Syntax

concat(s1, s2, ...)

Arguments

s1, s2 ... – Values of type String or FixedString.

Returned values

The string that results from concatenating the arguments.

If any of argument values is NULL , concat returns NULL .

Example

SELECT concat('Hello, ', 'World!');

Result:

┌─concat('Hello, ', 'World!')─┐
│ Hello, World!               │
└─────────────────────────────┘

concatAssumeInjective

Same as concat , the difference is that you need to ensure that concat(s1, s2, ...) → sn is injective, it will be used for optimization of GROUP BY.

The function is named “injective” if it always returns different result for different values of arguments. In other words: different arguments never yield identical result.

Syntax

concatAssumeInjective(s1, s2, ...)

Arguments

s1, s2 ... – Values of type String or FixedString.

Returned values

The String that results from concatenating the arguments.

Note: If any of argument values is NULL , concatAssumeInjective returns NULL .

Example

Input table:

CREATE TABLE test.key_val(`key1` String, `key2` String, `value` UInt32) ENGINE = CnchMergeTree ORDER BY key2;
INSERT INTO test.key_val VALUES ('Hello, ','World',1), ('Hello, ','World',2), ('Hello, ','World!',3), ('Hello',', World!',2);
SELECT * from test.key_val;

┌─key1───┬─key2─────┬─value─┐
│ Hello  │ , World! │ 2     │
│ Hello, │ World    │ 1     │
│ Hello, │ World    │ 2     │
│ Hello, │ World!   │ 3     │
└────────┴──────────┴───────┘

Query:

SELECT concat(key1, key2), sum(value) FROM test.key_val GROUP BY concatAssumeInjective(key1, key2);

Result:

┌─concat(key1, key2)─┬─sum(value)─┐
│ Hello,World        │ 3          │
│ Hello,World!       │ 3          │
│ Hello, World!      │ 2          │
└────────────────────┴────────────┘

convertCharset

Returns the string that was converted from the encoding in from to the encoding in to.

Syntax

convertCharset(s, from, to)

Arguments

string – The string.
from – Decoding from a character encoding type.
to – Encoding to a character encoding type.

Returned value

to character encoding type.

Example

SELECT base64Encode(toString(convertCharset('abc', 'Unicode', 'UTF-8')))

Result:

┌─base64Encode(toString(convertCharset('abc', 'Unicode', 'UTF-8')))─┐
│ 5oWi77+9                                                          │
└───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

count

Counts the number of rows or not-NULL values.

Syntax

CNCH supports the following syntaxes for count :

count(expr) or COUNT(DISTINCT expr) .
count() or COUNT(*) .

Arguments

The function can take:

Zero parameters.
One expression .

Returned value

If the function is called without parameters it counts the number of rows.
If the expression is passed, then the function counts how many times this expression returned not null. If the expression returns a Nullable -type value, then the result of count stays not Nullable . The function returns 0 if the expression returned NULL for all the rows.
In both cases the type of the returned value is UInt64.

Details

CNCH supports the COUNT(DISTINCT ...) syntax. The behavior of this construction depends on the count_distinct_implementation setting. It defines which of the uniq* functions is used to perform the operation. The default is the uniqExact function.

The SELECT count() FROM table query is not optimized, because the number of entries in the table is not stored separately. It chooses a small column from the table and counts the number of values in it.

However SELECT count(nullable_column) FROM table query can be optimized by enabling the optimize_functions_to_subcolumns setting. With optimize_functions_to_subcolumns = 1 the function reads only null subcolumn instead of reading and processing the whole column data. The query SELECT count(n) FROM table transforms to SELECT sum(NOT n.null) FROM table .

Examples

Example 1:

CREATE TABLE test.test_count (id Int32) ENGINE = CnchMergeTree ORDER BY id;
INSERT INTO test.test_count(id) VALUES(1),(2),(3),(4),(5),(5);
select count() from test.test_count;

┌─count()─┐
│ 6       │
└─────────┘

Example 2:

SELECT name, value FROM system.settings WHERE name = 'count_distinct_implementation';

┌─name──────────────────────────┬─value─────┐
│ count_distinct_implementation │ uniqExact │
└───────────────────────────────┴───────────┘

select count(distinct(id)) from test.`test_count`;

┌─uniqExact(id)─┐
│ 5             │
└───────────────┘

This example shows that count(DISTINCT num) is performed by the uniqExact function according to the count_distinct_implementation setting value.

e

Returns a Float64 number that is close to the number e.

Syntax

e()

Arguments

Returned value

Returns a Float64 number that is close to the number e.

Type: Float64

Example

SELECT e();

Result:

┌─e()───────────────────┐
│ 2.718281828459045e+00 │
└───────────────────────┘

empty

Returns 1 for an empty string or 0 for a non-empty string.

A string is considered non-empty if it contains at least one byte, even if this is a space or a null byte.

The function also works for arrays.

Syntax

empty(string)

Arguments

string – The string.

Returned value

Returns 1 for an empty string or 0 for a non-empty string.

Type: UInt8

Example

SELECT empty('');

Result:

┌─empty('')─┐
│ 1         │
└───────────┘

Other example

SELECT empty('test');

Result:

┌─empty('12312')─┐
│ 0              │
└────────────────┘

endsWith

Returns whether to end with the specified suffix. Returns 1 if the string ends with the specified suffix, otherwise it returns 0.

Syntax

endsWith(string, suffix)

Arguments

string – The string.
suffix – The suffix, test if s ends with the specified suffix.

Returned value

Returns 1 if the string ends with the specified suffix, otherwise it returns 0.

Type: UInt8

Example

SELECT endsWith('test_end_with','with');

Result:

┌─endsWith('test_end_with', 'with')─┐
│ 1                                 │
└───────────────────────────────────┘

Other example

SELECT endsWith('test_end_with','error');

Result:

┌─endsWith('test_end_with', 'error')─┐
│ 0                                  │
└────────────────────────────────────┘

extract

Extracts a fragment of a string using a regular expression. If string does not match the pattern regex, an empty string is returned. If the regex does not contain subpatterns, it takes the fragment that matches the entire regex. Otherwise, it takes the fragment that matches the first subpattern.

Syntax

extract(haystack, pattern)

Arguments

string – The string.
pattern – The regular expression pattern

Returned value

The matched string.

Type: string

Example

SELECT extract('abc<regex1>abc<regex2>abc','<.*?>');

Result:

┌─extract('abc<regex1>abc<regex2>', '<.*?>')─┐
│ <regex1>                                   │
└────────────────────────────────────────────┘

extractAll

Extracts all the fragments of a string using a regular expression. If string does not match the pattern regex, an empty string is returned. Returns an array of strings consisting of all matches to the regex. In general, the behavior is the same as the extract function (it takes the first subpattern, or the entire expression if there isn’t a subpattern).

Syntax

extractAll(string, pattern)

Arguments

string – The string.
pattern – The regular expression pattern

Returned value

The matched string.

Type: string

Example

SELECT extractAll('abc<regex1>abc<regex2>abc','<.*?>');

Result:

┌─extractAll('abc<regex1>abc<regex2>abc', '<.*?>')─┐
│ [<regex1>, <regex2>]                             │
└──────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

lcase

Converts ASCII Latin symbols in a string to lowercase.

Syntax

lcase(string)

Arguments

string – The string.

Returned value

The string in lowercase letter.

Type: string

Example

SELECT lcase('ABCdef');

Result:

┌─lcase('ABCdef')─┐
│ abcdef          │
└─────────────────┘

length

Returns the length of a string in integer,also the function works for arrays.

Syntax

length(x)

Arguments

x – The string or array.

Returned value

The length of a string or array.

Type: UInt64

Example

SELECT length('Hello');

Result:

┌─length('Hello')─┐
│ 5               │
└─────────────────┘

Other example

SELECT length([1,2,3,4]);

Result:

┌─length([1, 2, 3, 4])─┐
│ 4                    │
└──────────────────────┘

lengthUTF8

Returns the length of a string in integer, assuming that the string contains a set of bytes that make up UTF-8 encoded text. If this assumption is not met, it returns some result (it does not throw an exception).

Syntax

lengthUTF8(x)

Arguments

x – The string or array.

Returned value

The length of a string or array.

Type: UInt64

Example

encodeing 'Hello test' to UTF-8, we can get \x48\x65\x6C\x6C\x6F\x20\x74\x65\x73\x74

SELECT lengthUTF8('\x48\x65\x6C\x6C\x6F\x20\x74\x65\x73\x74');

Result:

┌─lengthUTF8('Hello test')─┐
│ 10                       │
└──────────────────────────┘

like

like(string, pattern), string LIKE pattern operator checks whether a string matches a simple regular expression.

Syntax

like(string, pattern)
string LIKE pattern

Arguments

string – The string.
pattern – The string matches a simple regular expression.

The regular expression can contain the metasymbols % and _ .

% indicates any quantity of any bytes (including zero characters).

_ indicates any one byte.

Use the backslash ( \ ) for escaping metasymbols. See the note on escaping in the description of the ‘match’ function.

For regular expressions like %needle% , the code is more optimal and works as fast as the position function.

For other regular expressions, the code is the same as for the ‘match’ function.

Returned value

Either 1 or 0.

Type:UInt8

Example

SELECT like('abc','ab');

Type

Result:

┌─like('abc', 'ab')─┐
│ 0                 │
└───────────────────┘

Other example

SELECT 'abc' LIKE 'ab%';

Result:

┌─like('abc', 'ab%')─┐
│ 1                  │
└────────────────────┘

locate

The locate() function returns the position of the first occurrence of a substring in a string.

Alias for position(string, substring)

Syntax

`locate(string, substring[, start_pos])` .

Arguments

string – The String, in which substring will to be searched.String .
substring – The Substring to be searched.String
start_pos – The Optional parameter, position of the first character in the string to start search.UInt

Returned value

the position of the first occurrence of a substring in a string.

Type: UInt64

Example

SELECT locate('Hello World', 'Wor');

Result:

┌─locate('Hello World', 'Wor')─┐
│ 7                            │
└──────────────────────────────┘

TODO: need to verify it after resolved [Locate does not support start_pos][https://jira-sg.bytedance.net/browse/BYT-3176](https://jira-sg.bytedance.net/browse/BYT-3176), this task will be postpone till the final document on function part is ready

lower

Converts ASCII Latin symbols in a string to lowercase.

Syntax

lower(string)

Arguments

string – The string.

Returned value

The string in lowercase letter.

Type: string

Example

SELECT lower('ABCdef');

Result:

┌─lower('ABCdef')─┐
│ abcdef          │
└─────────────────┘

lowerUTF8

Converts a string to lowercase, assuming the string contains a set of bytes that make up a UTF-8 encoded text.

Note: It does not detect the language. So for Turkish the result might not be exactly correct.

If the length of the UTF-8 byte sequence is different for upper and lower case of a code point, the result may be incorrect for this code point.

If the string contains a set of bytes that is not UTF-8, then the behavior is undefined.

Syntax

lowerUTF8(s)

Arguments

s – The string.

Returned value

The string in lowercase letter.

Type: string

Example

encodeing 'Hello test' to UTF-8, we can get '\x48\x65\x6C\x6C\x6F\x20\x74\x65\x73\x74'.

SELECT lowerUTF8('\x48\x65\x6C\x6C\x6F\x20\x74\x65\x73\x74');

Result:

┌─lowerUTF8('Hello test')─┐
│ hello test              │
└─────────────────────────┘

match

Checks whether the string matches the pattern regular expression. A re2 regular expression. The syntax of the re2 regular expressions is more limited than the syntax of the Perl regular expressions.

Note that the backslash symbol ( \ ) is used for escaping in the regular expression. The same symbol is used for escaping in string literals. So in order to escape the symbol in a regular expression, you must write two backslashes () in a string literal.

The regular expression works with the string as if it is a set of bytes. The regular expression can’t contain null bytes.

For patterns to search for substrings in a string, it is better to use LIKE or ‘position’, since they work much faster.

Syntax

match(string, pattern)

Arguments

string – The string.
pattern – The pattern for matching

Returned value

Returns 0 if it does not match, or 1 if it matches.

Type: UInt8

Example

SELECT match('abc<regex1>abc<regex2>abc','<.*?>');

Result:

┌─match('abc<regex1>abc<regex2>abc', '<.*?>')─┐
│ 1                                           │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────┘

mid

Returns a substring starting from the ‘offset’ index that is ‘length’ long. Character indexing starts from one (as in standard SQL). The ‘offset’ and ‘length’ arguments must be constants.

Syntax

mid(s, offset, length)

Arguments

s – The string.
offset – The substring starting offset.
length – The length of substring.

Returned value

The substring.

Type: string

Example

SELECT mid('Hello CNCH',7,4);

Result:

┌─mid('Hello CNCH', 7, 4)─┐
│ CNCH                    │
└─────────────────────────┘

multiFuzzyMatchAny

The same as multiMatchAny , but returns 1 if any pattern matches the string within a constant edit distance . This function is also in an experimental mode and can be extremely slow. For more information see hyperscan documentation .

Syntax

multiFuzzyMatchAny(string, distance, [pattern_1, pattern_2, …, pattern_n])

'''Arguments

string – The string.
distance – The integer, please refer to edit distance.
pattern – The pattern using in fuzzy match.

Returned value

returns 1 if any pattern matches the string, otherwise 0.

Type: UInt8

Example

SELECT multiFuzzyMatchAny('123ab12cdef',2,['abcd']);

Note: the distince is 2 due to the length of 12 in ab12cd

Result:

┌─multiFuzzyMatchAny('123ab12cdef', 2, ['abcd'])─┐
│ 1                                              │
└────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

multiFuzzyMatchAnyIndex

The same as multiFuzzyMatchAny , but returns any index that matches the string within a constant edit distance.

Syntax

multiFuzzyMatchAnyIndex(string, distance, [pattern_1, pattern_2, …, pattern_n])

'''Arguments

string – The string.
distance – The integer, please refer to edit distance.
pattern – The pattern using in fuzzy match.

Returned value

returns returns any index that matches the string.

Type: UInt64

Example

SELECT multiFuzzyMatchAnyIndex('111333444CN1CH',1,['abc','def','CNCH']);

Note: the distince is 1 due to the length of 1 in CN1CH

Result:

┌─multiFuzzyMatchAnyIndex('111333444CN1CH', 1, ['abc', 'def', 'CNCH'])─┐
│ 3                                                                    │
└──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

multiMatchAny

multiMatchAny(haystack, [pattern_1, pattern_2, …, pattern_n])

The same as match , but returns 0 if none of the regular expressions are matched and 1 if any of the patterns matches. It uses hyperscan library. For patterns to search substrings in a string, it is better to use multiSearchAny since it works much faster.

Note: The length of any of the haystack string must be less than 232 bytes otherwise the exception is thrown. This restriction takes place because of hyperscan API.

Syntax

multiMatchAny(string, [pattern_1, pattern_2, …, pattern_n])

Arguments

string – The string.
pattern – The pattern for matching

Returned value

Returns 0 if it does not match, or 1 if it matches.

Type: UInt8

Example

SELECT multiMatchAny('abc<regex1>abc<regex2>abc',['<.*?>','error_patten']);

Result:

┌─multiMatchAny('abc<regex1>abc<regex2>abc', ['<.*?>', 'error_patten'])─┐
│ 1                                                                     │
└───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

multiMatchAnyIndex

The same as multiMatchAny , but returns any index that matches the string.

Syntax

multiMatchAnyIndex(string, [pattern_1, pattern_2, …, pattern_n])

Arguments

string – The string.
pattern – The pattern for matching

Returned value

Returns any index that matches the string.

Type: UInt64

Example

SELECT multiMatchAnyIndex('abc<regex1>abc<regex2>abc',['error_patten', '<.*?>']);

Result:

┌─multiMatchAnyIndex('abc<regex1>abc<regex2>abc', ['error_patten', '<.*?>'])─┐
│ 2                                                                          │
└────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

multiSearchAllPositions

The same as position but returns Array of positions of the found corresponding substrings in the string. Positions are indexed starting from 0.

The search is performed on sequences of bytes without respect to string encoding and collation.

For case-insensitive ASCII search, use the function multiSearchAllPositionsCaseInsensitive .
For search in UTF-8, use the function multiSearchAllPositionsUTF8 .
For case-insensitive UTF-8 search, use the function multiSearchAllPositionsCaseInsensitiveUTF8.

Syntax

multiSearchAllPositions(string, [substring_1, substring_2, ..., Substring_n])

Arguments

string — The string, in which substring will to be searched. String .
substring — Substring to be searched. String .

Returned values

Array of starting positions in (counting from 1), if the corresponding substring was found and 0 if not found.

Type: Array(UInt64)

Example

SELECT multiSearchAllPositions('Hello, World!', ['hello', '!', 'world']);

Result:

┌─multiSearchAllPositions('Hello, World!', ['hello', '!', 'world'])─┐
│ [0, 13, 0]                                                        │
└───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

multiSearchAllPositionsUTF8

Please refer to multiSearchAllPositions .## multiSearchAny Returns 1, if at least one string needle_i matches the string string and 0 otherwise.

For a case-insensitive search or/and in UTF-8 format use functions multiSearchAnyCaseInsensitive, multiSearchAnyUTF8, multiSearchAnyCaseInsensitiveUTF8.

Note:

In all multiSearch* functions the number of patterns should be less than 28 because of implementation specification.

Syntax

multiSearchAny(string, [pattern_1, pattern_2, …, pattern_n])

Arguments

string – The string.
pattern – The pattern for matching

Returned value

Returns 1, if at least one pattern matches the string string and 0 otherwise.

Type: UInt8

Example

SELECT multiSearchAny('can_you_find_CNCH?',['abc','CNCH']);

Result:

┌─multiSearchAny('can_you_find_CNCH?', ['abc', 'CNCH'])─┐
│ 1                                                     │
└───────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

multiSearchFirstIndex

Returns the index i (starting from 1) of the leftmost found pattern_i in the string and 0 otherwise.

For a case-insensitive search or/and in UTF-8 format use functions multiSearchFirstIndexCaseInsensitive, multiSearchFirstIndexUTF8, multiSearchFirstIndexCaseInsensitiveUTF8 .

Syntax

multiSearchFirstIndex(string, [pattern_1, pattern_2, …, pattern_n])

Arguments

string – The string.
pattern – The pattern for matching

Returned value

Returns the index i (starting from 1) of the leftmost found pattern_i in the string and 0 otherwise.

Type: UInt8

Example

SELECT multiSearchFirstIndex('which_pattern_matchs_CNCH?',['abc','CNCH']);

Result:

┌─multiSearchFirstIndex('which_pattern_matchs_CNCH?', ['abc', 'CNCH'])─┐
│ 2                                                                    │
└──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

multiSearchFirstPosition

The same as position but returns the leftmost offset of the string that is matched to some of the substring.

For a case-insensitive search or/and in UTF-8 format use functions multiSearchFirstPositionCaseInsensitive, multiSearchFirstPositionUTF8, multiSearchFirstPositionCaseInsensitiveUTF8 .

Syntax

multiSearchFirstPosition(string, [pattern_1, pattern_2, …, pattern_n])

Arguments

string – The string.
substring – The substring for matching.

Returned value

Returns the index i (starting from 1) of the leftmost found pattern_i in the string and 0 otherwise.

Type: UInt8

Example

SELECT multiSearchFirstPosition('123_abc_abc_CNCH?',['abc','CNCH']);

Result:

┌─multiSearchFirstPosition('123_abc_abc_CNCH?', ['abc', 'CNCH'])─┐
│ 5                                                              │
└────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

ngramDistance

Calculates the 4-gram distance between string and substring : counts the symmetric difference between two multisets of 4-grams and normalizes it by the sum of their cardinalities. Returns float number from 0 to 1 – the closer to zero, the more strings are similar to each other. If the constant substring or substring is more than 32Kb, throws an exception. If some of the non-constant substring or substring strings are more than 32Kb, the distance is always one.

For case-insensitive search or/and in UTF-8 format use functions ngramDistanceCaseInsensitive, ngramDistanceUTF8, ngramDistanceCaseInsensitiveUTF8 .

Syntax

ngramDistance(string, [substring_1, substring_2, …, substring_n])

Arguments

string – The string.
substring – The substring for matching.

Returned value

Returns the index i (starting from 1) of the leftmost found substring_i in the string and 0 otherwise.

Type: Float32

Example

SELECT ngramDistance('abc123ascCNCH_83q','CNCH');

Result:

┌─ngramDistance('abc123ascCNCH_83q', 'CNCH')─┐
│ 8.666667e-01                               │
└────────────────────────────────────────────┘

not

Calculates the result of the logical negation of the value. Corresponds to Logical Negation Operator .

Syntax

not(val);

Arguments

val — The value. Int , UInt , Float or Nullable .

Returned value

1 , if the val is 0 .
0 , if the val is a non-zero value.
NULL , if the val is a NULL value.

Type: UInt8 or Nullable ( UInt8.

Example

SELECT NOT(1);

Result:

┌─not(1)─┐
│ 0      │
└────────┘

notEmpty

Returns 0 for an empty string or 1 for a non-empty string.

The function also works for arrays.

Syntax

notEmpty(string)

Arguments

s – The string.

Returned value

Returns 1 for an empty string or 0 for a non-empty string.

Type: UInt8

Example

SELECT notEmpty('test');

Result:

┌─notEmpty('test')─┐
│ 1                │
└──────────────────┘

Other example

SELECT notEmpty('');

Result:

┌─notEmpty('')─┐
│ 0            │
└──────────────┘

notLike

notLike(string, pattern), string NOT LIKE pattern operator.

The same thing as ‘like’, but negative.

Syntax

notLike(string, pattern)

Arguments

string – The string.
pattern – The pattern for matching.

Returned value

Returns 0 if it does not match, or 1 if it matches.

Type: UInt8

Example

SELECT notLike('test1','test2');

Result:

┌─notLike('test1', 'test2')─┐
│ 1                         │
└───────────────────────────┘

position

Searches for the substring in the string.

Returns the position of the found substring in the string, starting from 1.

Note: The search is case-sensitive by default, for a case-insensitive search, use the function positionCaseInsensitive .

Syntax

position(substring IN string)

position(string, substring[, start_pos])

Alias: locate(string, substring[, start_pos]) .

Note: Syntax of position(substring IN string) provides SQL-compatibility, the function works the same way as to position(string, substring) .

Arguments

string – The String, in which substring will to be searched.String .
substring – The Substring to be searched.String
start_pos – The Optional parameter, position of the first character in the string to start search.UInt

Returned values

Returns the position of the found substring in the string, starting from 1.

Type: Integer

Examples

The phrase “Hello, world!” contains a set of bytes representing a single-byte encoded text. The function returns some expected result:

SELECT position('Hello, world!', '!');

Result:

┌─position('Hello, world!', '!')─┐
│ 13                             │
└────────────────────────────────┘

SELECT position('Hello, world!', 'o', 1),position('Hello, world!', 'o', 7);

┌─position('Hello, world!', 'o', 1)─┬─position('Hello, world!', 'o', 7)─┐

│                                 5 │                                 9 │

└───────────────────────────────────┴───────────────────────────────────┘

The same phrase in Russian contains characters which can’t be represented using a single byte. The function returns some unexpected result (use positionUTF8 function for multi-byte encoded text):

SELECT position('Привет, мир!', '!');

Result:

┌─position('Привет, мир!', '!')─┐
│                            21 │
└───────────────────────────────┘

Examples for position(substring IN string) syntax

SELECT 3 = position('c' IN 'abc');

Result:

┌─equals(3, position('abc', 'c'))─┐
│                               1 │
└─────────────────────────────────┘

Query:

SELECT 6 = position('/' IN s) FROM (SELECT 'Hello/World' AS s);

Result:

┌─equals(6, position(s, '/'))─┐
│                           1 │
└─────────────────────────────┘

positionCaseInsensitive

The same as position returns the position of the found substring in the string, starting from 1. Use the function for a case-insensitive search.

Works under the assumption that the string contains a set of bytes representing a single-byte encoded text. If this assumption is not met and a character can’t be represented using a single byte, the function does not throw an exception and returns some unexpected result. If character can be represented using two bytes, it will use two bytes and so on.

Syntax

positionCaseInsensitive(string, substring[, start_pos])

Arguments

string – The String, in which substring will to be searched.String .
substring – The Substring to be searched.String
start_pos – The Optional parameter, position of the first character in the string to start search.UInt

Returned values

Starting position in bytes (counting from 1), if substring was found.
0, if the substring was not found.

Type: Integer .

Example

SELECT positionCaseInsensitive('Hello, world!', 'hello');

Result:

┌─positionCaseInsensitive('Hello, world!', 'hello')─┐
│ 1                                                 │
└───────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

positionCaseInsensitiveUTF8

The same as positionUTF8 , but is case-insensitive. Returns the position (in Unicode points) of the found substring in the string, starting from 1.

Works under the assumption that the string contains a set of bytes representing a UTF-8 encoded text. If this assumption is not met, the function does not throw an exception and returns some unexpected result. If character can be represented using two Unicode points, it will use two and so on.

Syntax

positionCaseInsensitiveUTF8(string, substring[, start_pos])

Arguments

string – The String, in which substring will to be searched.String .
substring – The Substring to be searched.String
start_pos – The Optional parameter, position of the first character in the string to start search.UInt

Returned value

Starting position in Unicode points (counting from 1), if substring was found.
0, if the substring was not found.

Type: Integer .

Example

Query:

SELECT positionCaseInsensitiveUTF8('Привет, мир!', 'Мир');

Result:

┌─positionCaseInsensitiveUTF8('Привет, мир!', 'Мир')─┐
│ 9                                                  │
└────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

positionUTF8

Returns the position (in Unicode points) of the found substring in the string, starting from 1.

For a case-insensitive search, use the function positionCaseInsensitiveUTF8 .

Syntax

positionUTF8(string, substring[, start_pos])

Arguments

string – The String, in which substring will to be searched.String .
substring – The Substring to be searched.String
start_pos – The Optional parameter, position of the first character in the string to start search.UInt

Returned values

Starting position in Unicode points (counting from 1), if substring was found.
0, if the substring was not found.

Type: Integer .

Examples

SELECT positionUTF8('Привет, мир!', '!') as example;

The phrase “Hello, world!” in Russian contains a set of Unicode points representing a single-point encoded text. The function returns some expected result:

Result:

┌─example─┐
│ 12      │
└─────────┘

TODO: Xinghe: below sentences will be deleted due to two query returns the same result.

The phrase “Salut, étudiante!”, where character é can be represented using a one point ( U+00E9 ) or two points ( U+0065U+0301 ) the function can be returned some unexpected result:

Query for the letter é , which is represented one Unicode point U+00E9 :

SELECT positionUTF8('Salut, étudiante!', '!');

Result:

┌─positionUTF8('Salut, étudiante!', '!')─┐
│                                     17 │
└────────────────────────────────────────┘

Query for the letter é , which is represented two Unicode points U+0065U+0301 :

SELECT positionUTF8('Salut, étudiante!', '!');

Result:

┌─positionUTF8('Salut, étudiante!', '!')─┐
│                                     18 │
└────────────────────────────────────────┘

regexpQuoteMeta

The function adds a backslash before some predefined characters in the string.

Predefined characters: \0 , | , ( , ) , ^ , $ , . , [ , ] , ? , * , + , { , : , - .

TODO: Note: i have deleted \\ in predefined characters because it's not working.

This implementation slightly differs from re2::RE2::QuoteMeta. It escapes zero byte as \0 instead of \x00 and it escapes only required characters.

For more information, see the link: RE2

Syntax

regexpQuoteMeta(string)

Arguments

string – The string.

Returned value

– The string.

Type: string

Example

SELECT regexpQuoteMeta(' | , ( , ) , ^ , $ , . , [ , ] , ? ,');

Result:

┌─regexpQuoteMeta(' | , ( , ) , ^ , $ , . , [ , ] , ? ,')─┐
│  \| , \( , \) , \^ , \$ , \. , \[ , \] , \? ,           │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

replace

Replaces all occurrences of the substring in string with the replacement.

Alias to replaceAll

Syntax

replace(string, substring, replacement)

Arguments

string — The String, in which substring will to be searched.
substring — The Substring to be searched.
replacement — The replacement string to replace matched substring.

Returned value

Replaces all occurrences of the substring in string with the replacement.

Type: string

Example

SELECT replace('test target_string test','target_string','CNCH');

Result:

┌─replace('test target_string test', 'target_string', 'CNCH')─┐
│ test CNCH test                                              │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

replaceAll

Replaces all occurrences of the substring in string with the replacement.

Please refer to replace

replaceOne

Replaces the first occurrence, if it exists, of the substring in string with the replacement.

Syntax

replaceOne(string, substring, replacement)

Arguments

string – The String, in which substring will to be searched.String .
substring – The Substring to be searched.String
start_pos – The Optional parameter, position of the first character in the string to start search.UInt

Returned value

Replaces first occurrences of the substring in string with the replacement.

Type: string

Example

SELECT replaceOne('test target_string test target_string','target_string','CNCH');

Result:

┌─replaceOne('test target_string test target_string', 'target_string', 'CNCH')─┐
│ test CNCH test target_string                                                 │
└──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

replaceRegexpAll

This does the same thing like replaceAll, but using regular expression.

A pattern can be specified as ‘replacement’. This pattern can include substitutions \0-\9 .
The substitution \0 includes the entire regular expression. Substitutions \1-\9 correspond to the subpattern numbers.To use the \ character in a template, escape it using \ .

Noted: Replacement using the re2 regular expression.

Syntax

replaceRegexpAll(string, pattern, replacement)

Arguments

string – The string.
pattern – The pattern for matching.
replacement — The replacement string to replace matched substring.

Returned value

Replaces all occurrences of the substring in string with the replacement.

Type: string

Example

SELECT replaceRegexpAll('Hello, World!', '.', '\\0\\0');

┌─replaceRegexpAll('Hello, World!', '.', '\\0\\0')─┐
│ HHeelllloo,,  WWoorrlldd!!                       │
└──────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

As an exception, if a regular expression worked on an empty substring, the replacement is not made more than once.

Example:

SELECT replaceRegexpAll('Hello, World!', '^', 'here: ');

┌─replaceRegexpAll('Hello, World!', '^', 'here: ')─┐
│ here: Hello, World!                              │
└──────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

replaceRegexpOne

Replaces only the first occurrence, if it exists.

Noted: Replacement using the pattern regular expression. A re2 regular expression.

A pattern can be specified as ‘replacement’. This pattern can include substitutions \0-\9 .

The substitution \0 includes the entire regular expression. Substitutions \1-\9 correspond to the subpattern numbers.To use the \ character in a template, escape it using \ .

Also keep in mind that a string literal requires an extra escape.

Syntax

replaceRegexpOne(string, pattern, replacement)

Arguments

string – The string.
pattern – The pattern for matching.
replacement — The replacement string to replace matched substring.

Returned value

Replaces first occurrences of the substring in string with the replacement.

Type: string

Example

SELECT replaceRegexpOne('test <target_string> test <target_string>','<.*?>','CNCH');

Result:

┌─replaceRegexpOne('test <target_string> test <target_string>', '<.*?>', 'CNCH')─┐
│ test CNCH test <target_string>                                                 │
└────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

other example

Example 1. Converting the date to American format:

select '2014-03-17', replaceRegexpOne(toString('2014-03-17'), '(\\d{4})-(\\d{2})-(\\d{2})', '\\2/\\3/\\1');

┌─'2014-03-17'─┬─replaceRegexpOne(toString('2014-03-17'), '(\\d{4})-(\\d{2})-(\\d{2})', '\\2/\\3/\\1')─┐
│ 2014-03-17   │ 03/17/2014                                                                            │
└──────────────┴───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

Example 2. Copying a string ten times:

SELECT replaceRegexpOne('Hello, World!', '.*', '\\0\\0\\0\\0\\0\\0\\0\\0\\0\\0');

Result:

┌─replaceRegexpOne('Hello, World!', '.*', '\\0\\0\\0\\0\\0\\0\\0\\0\\0\\0')──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ Hello, World!Hello, World!Hello, World!Hello, World!Hello, World!Hello, World!Hello, World!Hello, World!Hello, World!Hello, World! │
└────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

reverse

Reverses the string (as a sequence of bytes).

Syntax

reverse(string)

Arguments

string – The string.

Returned value

The reversed string.

Type: string

Example

SELECT reverse('abcd1234');

Result:

┌─reverse('abcd1234')─┐
│ 4321dcba            │
└─────────────────────┘

reverseUTF8

Reverses a sequence of Unicode code points, assuming that the string contains a set of bytes representing a UTF-8 text. Otherwise, it does something else (it does not throw an exception).

Syntax

reverseUTF8(string)

Arguments

string – The UTF8 string.

Returned value

The reversed string.

Type: string

Example

SELECT reverseUTF8('\x61\x62\x63\x64\x31\x32\x33\x34');

Note: '\x61\x62\x63\x64\x31\x32\x33\x34' is 'abcd1234' in UTF8 format.

Result:

┌─reverseUTF8('abcd1234')─┐
│ 4321dcba                │
└─────────────────────────┘

size

Returns the length of a string in bytes (not in characters, and not in code points).

Noted: The function also works for arrays.

Alias to length

Syntax

size(x)

Arguments

x – The string or array.

Returned value

The length of a string or array.

Type: UInt64

Example

SELECT size('Hello');

Result:

┌─size('Hello')─┐
│ 5             │
└───────────────┘

Other example

SELECT size([1,2,3,4]);

Result:

┌─size([1, 2, 3, 4])─┐
│ 4                  │
└────────────────────┘

splitByChar

Splits a string into substrings separated by a specified character. It uses a constant string separator which consisting of exactly one character.

Returns an array of selected substrings. Empty substrings may be selected if the separator occurs at the beginning or end of the string, or if there are multiple consecutive separators.

Syntax

splitByChar(separator, string)

Arguments

separator — The separator which should contain exactly one character. String .
string — The string to split. String .

Returned value

Returns an array of selected substrings. Empty substrings may be selected when:

A separator occurs at the beginning or end of the string;
There are multiple consecutive separators;
The original string string is empty.

Type: array

Example

SELECT splitByChar(',', '1,2,3,abcde');

Result:

┌─splitByChar(',', '1,2,3,abcde')─┐
│ [1, 2, 3, abcde]                │
└─────────────────────────────────┘

splitByString

Splits a string into substrings separated by a string. It uses a constant string separator of multiple characters as the separator. If the string separator is empty, it will split the string into an array of single characters.

Syntax

splitByString(separator, string)

Arguments

separator — The separator which should contain a string. String .
string — The string to split. String .

Returned value

Returns an array of selected substrings. Empty substrings may be selected when:

A separator occurs at the beginning or end of the string;
There are multiple consecutive separators;
The original string string is empty.

Type: array

Example

SELECT splitByString('test', 'abctestCNCHtestdef');

Result:

┌─splitByString('test', 'abctestCNCHtestdef')─┐
│ [abc, CNCH, def]                            │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────┘

startsWith

Returns 1 whether string starts with the specified prefix, otherwise it returns 0.

Syntax

startsWith(string, prefix)

Arguments

string — The string .
prefix — The prefix for matching.

Returned values

1, if the string starts with the specified prefix.
0, if the string does not start with the specified prefix.

Type: UInt8

Example

SELECT startsWith('Hello, world!', 'He');

Result:

┌─startsWith('Hello, world!', 'He')─┐
│ 1                                 │
└───────────────────────────────────┘

substr

Please refer to substring## substring Returns a substring starting with the byte from the offset index that is length bytes long. Character indexing starts from one (as in standard SQL).

Note: The offset and length arguments must be constants.

Syntax

substring(string, offset, length)

Arguments

string – The string.
offset – The substring starting offset.
length – The length of substring.

Returned value

The substring.

Type: string

Example

SELECT substring('Hello CNCH', 7, 4);

Result:

┌─substr('Hello CNCH', 7, 4)─┐
│ CNCH                       │
└────────────────────────────┘

substringUTF8

The same as substring, but for Unicode code points. Works under the assumption that the string contains a set of bytes representing a UTF-8 encoded text.

Note: If this assumption is not met, it returns some result (it does not throw an exception).

Syntax

substringUTF8(string, offset, length)

Arguments

string – The string.
offset – The substring starting offset.
length – The length of substring.

Returned value

The substring.

Type: string

Example

SELECT substringUTF8('\x48\x65\x6c\x6c\x6f\x20\x43\x4e\x43\x48H', 7, 4);

Result:

┌─substringUTF8('Hello CNCHH', 7, 4)─┐
│ CNCH                               │
└────────────────────────────────────┘

trimBoth

Removes all consecutive occurrences of common whitespace (ASCII character 32) from both ends of a string. It does not remove other kinds of whitespace characters (tab, no-break space, etc.).

Syntax

trimBoth(string)

Alias: trim(string) .

Arguments

string — string to trim. String .

Returned value

A string without leading and trailing common whitespaces.

Type: String

Example

SELECT trimBoth('     Hello, world!     ') as a;

Result:

┌─a─────────────┐
│ Hello, world! │
└───────────────┘

trimLeft

Removes all consecutive occurrences of common whitespace (ASCII character 32) from the beginning of a string. It does not remove other kinds of whitespace characters (tab, no-break space, etc.).

Syntax

trimLeft(string)

Alias: trim(string) .

Arguments

string — string to trim. String .

Returned value

A string without leading common whitespaces.

Type: String

Example

SELECT trimLeft('     Hello, world!     ') as example;

Result:

┌─example────────────┐
│ Hello, world!      │
└────────────────────┘

trimRight

Removes all consecutive occurrences of common whitespace (ASCII character 32) from the end of a string. It does not remove other kinds of whitespace characters (tab, no-break space, etc.).

Syntax

trimRight(string)

Alias: trim(string) .

Arguments

string — string to trim. String .

Returned value

A string without trailing common whitespaces.

Type: String

Example

TODO： below query will trims characters.... i have feedbacked to byteyard on call

SELECT trimRight('     Hello, world!     ');

Result:

┌─trimLeft('     Hello, world!     ')─┐
│ Hello, world!                       │
└─────────────────────────────────────┘

tryBase64Decode

Similar to base64Decode, but in case of error an empty string would be returned.

Syntax

tryBase64Decode(string)

Arguments

string – The base64 encoded string.

Returned value

The decoded string.

Type: string

Example

SELECT tryBase64Decode('SGVsbG8gV29ybGQh');

Note: 'SGVsbG8gV29ybGQh' is the encoded base64 format of 'Hello World! '

Result:

┌─tryBase64Decode('SGVsbG8gV29ybGQh')─┐
│ Hello World!                        │
└─────────────────────────────────────┘

ucase

Converts ASCII Latin symbols in a string to uppercase.

Syntax

ucase(string)

Arguments

string – The string.

Returned value

The string in uppercase letter.

Type: string

Example

SELECT ucase('ABCdef');

Result:

┌─ucase('ABCdef')─┐
│ ABCDEF          │
└─────────────────┘

upper

Converts ASCII Latin symbols in a string to uppercase.

Syntax

upper(string)

Arguments

string – The string.

Returned value

The string in uppercase letter.

Type: string

Example

SELECT upper('ABCdef');

Result:

┌─upper('ABCdef')─┐
│ ABCDEF          │
└─────────────────┘

upperUTF8

Converts a string to uppercase, assuming the string contains a set of bytes that make up a UTF-8 encoded text.

It does not detect the language. So for Turkish the result might not be exactly correct.
If the length of the UTF-8 byte sequence is different for upper and lower case of a code point, the result may be incorrect for this code point.
If the string contains a set of bytes that is not UTF-8, then the behavior is undefined.

Syntax

upperUTF8(string)

Arguments

string – The UTF8 string.

Returned value

The string in uppercase letter.

Type: string

Example

encode 'hello world ！' to UTF8 '\x68\x65\x6c\x6c\x6f\x20\x77\x6f\x72\x6c\x64\x20\xef\xbc\x81'

SELECT upperUTF8('\x68\x65\x6c\x6c\x6f\x20\x77\x6f\x72\x6c\x64\x20\xef\xbc\x81');

Result:

┌─upperUTF8('hello world ！')─┐
│ HELLO WORLD ！                │
└──────────────────────────────┘

string

CHARACTER_LENGTH​

CHAR_LENGTH​

alphaTokens​

appendTrailingCharIfAbsent​

arrayStringConcat​

base64Decode​

base64Encode​

concat​

concatAssumeInjective​

convertCharset​

count​

e​

empty​

endsWith​

extract​

extractAll​

lcase​

length​

lengthUTF8​

like​

locate​

lower​

lowerUTF8​

match​

mid​

multiFuzzyMatchAny​

multiFuzzyMatchAnyIndex​

multiMatchAny​

multiMatchAnyIndex​

multiSearchAllPositions​

multiSearchAllPositionsUTF8​

multiSearchFirstIndex​

multiSearchFirstPosition​

ngramDistance​

not​

notEmpty​

notLike​

position​

positionCaseInsensitive​

positionCaseInsensitiveUTF8​

positionUTF8​

regexpQuoteMeta​

replace​

replaceAll​

replaceOne​

replaceRegexpAll​

replaceRegexpOne​

reverse​

reverseUTF8​

size​

splitByChar​

splitByString​

startsWith​

substr​

substringUTF8​

trimBoth​

trimLeft​

trimRight​

tryBase64Decode​

ucase​

upper​

upperUTF8​

CHARACTER_LENGTH

CHAR_LENGTH

alphaTokens

appendTrailingCharIfAbsent

arrayStringConcat

base64Decode

base64Encode

concat

concatAssumeInjective

convertCharset

count

e

empty

endsWith

extract

extractAll

lcase

length

lengthUTF8

like

locate

lower

lowerUTF8

match

mid

multiFuzzyMatchAny

multiFuzzyMatchAnyIndex

multiMatchAny

multiMatchAnyIndex

multiSearchAllPositions

multiSearchAllPositionsUTF8

multiSearchFirstIndex

multiSearchFirstPosition

ngramDistance

not

notEmpty

notLike

position

positionCaseInsensitive

positionCaseInsensitiveUTF8

positionUTF8

regexpQuoteMeta

replace

replaceAll

replaceOne

replaceRegexpAll

replaceRegexpOne

reverse

reverseUTF8

size

splitByChar

splitByString

startsWith

substr

substringUTF8

trimBoth

trimLeft

trimRight

tryBase64Decode

ucase

upper

upperUTF8