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REPLACE

Searches the string for a substring and replaces it with a replacement.

Syntax​

REPLACE ( string_expression, substring, replacement ) 

Arguments​

string_expression
A valid string expression.

substring A string expression that if contained in string_expression will be replaced.

replacement A string expression to be used to replaced instances of substring in string_expression.

Return Type​

Returns values of type STRING.

Examples​

Examples in this section use the example blockchain.

The following example replaces all instances of "d" in the str column with "b".

SELECT REPLACE(str, "d", "b") FROM example;

Response:

REPLACE(str, "d", "b") [STRING]
NULL
b
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