Currency Symbol

finance.currency.currency_symbol

Unicode currency symbol character. Examples: $, €, £, ¥, ₹, ₩, ₿. Single character (or short sequence) representing a currency.

Domain

finance

Try it

CLI

$ finetype infer -i "$"
→ finance.currency.currency_symbol

DuckDB

Detect

SELECT finetype('$');
-- → 'finance.currency.currency_symbol'

Cast expression

CAST({col} AS VARCHAR)

Safe cast pipeline

-- Normalise and cast in one step
SELECT TRY_CAST(finetype_cast(my_column) AS VARCHAR) AS clean_value
FROM my_table
WHERE finetype(my_column) = 'finance.currency.currency_symbol';

JSON Schema

finetype schema finance.currency.currency_symbol

{
  "$id": "https://meridian.online/schemas/finance.currency.currency_symbol",
  "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
  "description": "Unicode currency symbol character. Examples: $, €, £, ¥, ₹, ₩, ₿. Single character (or short sequence) representing a currency.",
  "examples": [
    "$",
    "€",
    "£",
    "¥",
    "₹",
    "₩",
    "₿"
  ],
  "pattern": "^[\\p{Sc}]+$",
  "title": "Currency Symbol",
  "type": "string",
  "x-finetype-broad-type": "VARCHAR",
  "x-finetype-transform": "CAST({col} AS VARCHAR)"
}

Examples

$€£¥₹₩₿

Aliases

currency_sign