TRANSLATE() Function in Oracle

In Oracle, the TRANSLATE() function allows you to make several single-character, one-to-one substitutions in one operation.

It 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.

It’s similar to the REPLACE() function, except that the REPLACE() function replaces the whole string with another string (i.e. not character by character, like TRANSLATE() does).

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