RIGHT

Returns the right part of a character string with the specified number of characters.

Syntax

RIGHT ( character_expression , integer_expression )

Arguments

character_expression

Is an expression of character or binary data. character_expression can be a constant, variable, or column. character_expression can be of any data type, except text or ntext, that can be implicitly converted to varchar or nvarchar. Otherwise, use the CAST function to explicitly convert character_expression.

index

Is a positive integer that specifies how many characters of the character_expression will be returned. If index is negative, an error is returned. If index is type bigint and contains a large value, character_expression must be of a large data type such as varchar(max).

Return types

varchar or nvarchar

Examples

SELECT RIGHT('0000 0',20);

See Also

• Functions