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{ “title”: “MASK_FIRST_N”, “language”: “en” }

mask_first_n

description

syntax

VARCHAR mask_first_n(VARCHAR str[, INT n])

Returns a masked version of str with the first n values masked. Upper case letters are converted to “X”, lower case letters are converted to “x” and numbers are converted to “n”. For example, mask_first_n(“1234-5678-8765-4321”, 4) results in nnnn-5678-8765-4321.

example

// table test
+-----------+
| name      |
+-----------+
| abc123EFG |
| NULL      |
| 456AbCdEf |
+-----------+

mysql> select mask_first_n(name, 5) from test;
+-------------------------+
| mask_first_n(`name`, 5) |
+-------------------------+
| xxxnn3EFG               |
| NULL                    |
| nnnXxCdEf               |
+-------------------------+

keywords

mask_first_n