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In a program I have used a function RPAD() to format data coming from DB2 db.
In one instance the value was Ãmber. The following function:
RPAD('Ãmber',10,' ')
gives 9 characters only.
The ASCII value of ‘Ã’ is 195. I am not able to understand the reason for this behaviour.
Could someone share their experience.
Thanks
By default, DB2 will consider the length of à to be 2, likely because it is counting bytes rather than characters.
You can override it for LENGTH and many other functions
Unfortunately, RPAD does not take a parameter like this. I’m guessing this might be because the function was added for Oracle compatibility rather than on its own merits.
You could write your own RPAD function as a stored procedure or UDF, or just handle it with a CASE statement if this is the only place where you need it.