{"id":10196,"date":"2024-03-14T11:42:51","date_gmt":"2024-03-14T11:42:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.silicloud.com\/blog\/how-is-the-locate-function-used-in-hive\/"},"modified":"2025-08-03T20:28:01","modified_gmt":"2025-08-03T20:28:01","slug":"how-is-the-locate-function-used-in-hive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.silicloud.com\/blog\/how-is-the-locate-function-used-in-hive\/","title":{"rendered":"Hive LOCATE Function Explained"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Hive, the locate function is used to search for a specified substring within a string and return the position of the first occurrence of the substring. Its syntax is as follows:<\/p>\n<pre class=\"post-pre\"><code>LOCATE(substring, string)\r\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>In this case, &#8220;substring&#8221; is the sub-string to be searched for within the string.<\/p>\n<p>For example, suppose there is a string &#8216;hello world&#8217;, you can use the locate function to find the position of the substring &#8216;world&#8217; in that string.<\/p>\n<pre class=\"post-pre\"><code><span class=\"hljs-keyword\">SELECT<\/span> LOCATE(<span class=\"hljs-string\">'world'<\/span>, <span class=\"hljs-string\">'hello world'<\/span>);\r\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>The search will return a result of 7, indicating that the substring &#8216;world&#8217; first appears in &#8216;hello world&#8217; at the 7th character.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Hive, the locate function is used to search for a specified substring within a string and return the position of the first occurrence of the substring. 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