SQL Error: ORA-01704: string literal too long

Question

select * from table(fn_split('some 10000 characters with comma separation .........................'))
Error report:
SQL Error: ORA-01704: string literal too long
01704. 00000 - "string literal too long"
*Cause:    The string literal is longer than 4000 characters.
*Action:   Use a string literal of at most 4000 characters.
how to pass my 10k record string

Answer 1

933663 wrote:
The string is through a user interface.So, that interface is using what datatype for the string? What language is the interface written in?
insert into table
select * from table(fn_split('2,4,2,5,7'));Do you understand what a string literal is? You cannot provide a varchar2 string that exceeds 4000 bytes from within SQL. Fact. It just cannot be done.
If you are passing the string from a user interface using a datatype that supports more than 4000 bytes, and you pass it directly to PL/SQL code by calling the function or procedure directly (not using SQL) then you can use up to 32767 bytes for your VARCHAR2.
The code you've posted (which happens to be some of my own code posted years ago on these forums) takes a VARCHAR2 as an input. You would have to change that to accept a CLOB datatype and work on the CLOB instead. However, you still wouldn't be able to pass in a string literal of more than 4000 bytes from SQL for it.
Looking at your other thread: Seperate the string value
... it looks like the 'user' is trying to pass in a table definition. What is it your application is trying to do? Surely you are not trying to create a table at run time?
So explain, what is the business issue you are trying to solve? We may be able to provide a better way of doing it.