Here, total characters are calculated with the LEN function. From this number, the result of the following expression is subtracted: With number of characters not specified, RIGHT will return the last character in the string. If this characters is a forward slash “/”, the expression returns TRUE. If not, it returns FALSE. Because TRUE and FALSE are coerced automatically to 1 and zero in math operations, we subtract zero from the result of LEN when the last characters is not “/” and we subtract 1 when the last characters is “/”. The result is provided to LEFT, which returns the final result.
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