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Tuesday, 20 February 2024

RPAD in MongoDB

In MongoDB, there is no built-in RPAD function like in traditional relational databases. However, you can achieve similar functionality using the aggregation framework, specifically the $concat and $substrCP operators. Here's an example of how to pad a string to the right in MongoDB:


Suppose you have a collection employees with documents containing an employee_name field, and you want to pad each employee_name to a length of 15 characters with asterisks (*):


db.employees.aggregate([

  {

    $addFields: {

      padded_name: {

        $concat: [

          "$employee_name",

          {

            $substrCP: [

              "***************",

              0,

              { $subtract: [15, { $strLenCP: "$employee_name" }] }

            ]

          }

        ]

      }

    }

  }

])


In this aggregation:


- $strLenCP calculates the length of the original employee_name.

- $subtract calculates the number of asterisks (*) needed to pad the string to a total length of 15 characters.

- $substrCP extracts a substring of asterisks (*) based on the calculated padding length.

- $concat concatenates the original employee_name with the generated padding string.


This aggregation will produce a new field padded_name in each document, containing the employee_name padded to a length of 15 characters with asterisks (*).

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