TRANSLATE (Azure Stream Analytics)

Returns the string provided as a first argument after some characters specified in the second argument are translated into a destination set of characters specified in the third argument.

The behavior of the TRANSLATE function is similar to using multiple REPLACE functions.

Syntax

TRANSLATE ( expression, replaced_characters, translations)

Arguments

expression

Is a character expression or a column of type nvarchar(max).

replaced_characters

Is a character expression or a column of type nvarchar(max). It contains the list of characters to be replaced.

translations

Is a character expression or a column of type nvarchar(max) of the same length as replaced_characters. It contains the replacement characters.

Return Types

nvarchar(max)

Remarks

TRANSLATE will return an error if characters and translations expressions have different lengths. TRANSLATE will return NULL if any of the arguments are NULL.

The behavior of the TRANSLATE function is similar to using multiple REPLACE functions. TRANSLATE does not, however, replace any individual character in inputString more than once. A single value in the characters parameter, can replace multiple characters in expression. This is dissimilar to the behavior of multiple REPLACE functions, as each function call would replace all relevant characters, even if they had been replaced by a previous nested REPLACE function call.

Examples

Replace square and curly braces with regular braces

SELECT
    x,
    TRANSLATE(x, '[]{}', '()()') AS translatedX
FROM Input

Convert GeoJSON points into WKT

SELECT
    xPoint,
    TRANSLATE(xPoint, '[,]', '( )') xPoint2Coordinates,
    xCoordinates,
    TRANSLATE(xPoint, '[,]', '( )') xCoordinates2Point
FROM Input

See Also

• REPLACE (Azure Stream Analytics)