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1560651350 I_kwDOCGYnMM5dBaZW 523 Feature request: trim all leading and trailing white space for all columns for all tables in a database 536941 open 0     1 2023-01-28T02:40:10Z 2023-01-28T02:41:14Z   CONTRIBUTOR  

It's pretty common that i need to trim leading or trailing white space from lots of columns in a database a part of an initial ETL.

I use the following recipe a lot, and it would be great to include this functionality into sqlite-utils

trimify.sql sql select 'select group_concat(''update [' || name || '] set ['' || name || ''] = trim(['' || name || ''])'', ''; '') || ''; '' as sql_to_run from pragma_table_info('''||name||''');' from sqlite_schema;

then something like:

bash sqlite3 example.db < scripts/trimify.sql > table_trim.sql && \ sqlite3 $example.db < table_trim.sql > trim.sql && \ sqlite3 $example.db < trim.sql

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