Blank line in string value in insert statement causing problems

I am generating an sql statement (insert) from an xml document using xsl transformation that is later run in an sqlplus session. The issue I am coming across is that one of the tags contains free-form text that can be any number of lines. Most strings are not causing a problem, but when there is a blank line in the string (two or more endline characters together) sqlplus seems to think this signifies the end of a statement. Here is an example that I hope will clarify what is being created.
INSERT INTO MYTABLE VALUES('THIS WORKS', 0, NULL, ...);
INSERT INTO MYTABLE VALUES('THIS
ALSO
WORKS', 0, NULL, ...);
INSERT INTO MYTABLE VALUES('THIS
DOES NOT
WORK', 0, NULL, ...);
Anyone seen this problem before or have a quick fix? All I can come up with is to pre-process the xml document (which, by the way, I have no control over the format as it comes from a client) to compress vertical whitespace. (This seems like overkill to me). Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Daniel

I don't know if this will work for u.
If ur string has more than one end of lines and u don't need them, u can replace them by a single space using
replace(string,chr(13)||chr(10),' ').
If this does not solve ur problem then probably ur srting has a special charachter. To remove it
take the ascii value of the special character and then see what is the corresponding chr value and then use replace function in ur insert statement where u find this special character.
I too face same kind of problem and this worked for me.

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Do not add this as a separate node. Keep it inside the field strucuture at the end and mentione the length of the field 0. Your problem will be solved.
VJ

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Hi,
I am using REUSE_ALV_GRID_DISPLAY for my report output and I am displaying the following fields :
Company Code Comp Name Bank Name Amount Data
I am sorting my output based on the company code and displaying the subtotal for each company code.
My requirement is that I need to insert a Blank line after every subtotaled value in the report output. like after the subtotaled value of company code say XXX a blank line should be inserted and then I should start displaying data for company code YYY.
Please let me know if this is possible and if yes how to do that.
In case I am not clear with my question please let me know.
Regards,
Lalit Kabra

Hi,
Following is my code ::
wa_sort-fieldname = 'BUKRS'.
wa_sort-tabname = 'WT_OUTPUT'.
wa_sort-spos = '1'.
wa_sort-up = 'X'.
wa_sort-subtot = 'X'.
wa_sort-group = 'UL'.
APPEND wa_sort TO it_sort.
CLEAR wa_sort.
wa_sort-fieldname = 'WRBTR'.
wa_sort-tabname = 'WT_OUTPUT'.
wa_sort-spos = '4'.
wa_sort-up = 'X'.
wa_sort-group = 'UL'.
APPEND wa_sort TO it_sort.
CLEAR wa_sort.
I have put the wa_sort-Group = 'UL' but could not get the desired results.
What my need is that say for one company code there are five line items, and I need to sort the output by company code then after displaying the 5 line items, I need to display the subtotal of amount for that company code , then a blank line and then the data for the next company code should start.
Please suggest how this can be achieved.
regards,
Lalit

Insert a blank line between records

Hi,
I am creating a sqlplus report and want to insert a blank line or some seperator to seperate the records between the start and end points of the loop to make it more readable.
ex : The output currently look like this.
ColumnA       ColumnB
1                  2
2                  3
3                  1
4                  5
5                  6
6                  4I want the output to look like this
ColumnA       ColumnB
1                  2
2                  3
3                  1
4                  5
5                  6
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Hi,
You probably work with this table every day, and you probably struggled with this particular query for a while before posting a question, so you're very familiar with the table, the data, and the application.
Perhaps no one else in the world is in that position. Don't assume we know what your data is, or where it came from.
Are you getting the data from a query like this?
SELECT     columna
,     columnb
FROM     table_x
START WITH          columna     IN (1, 4)
CONNECT BY NOCYCLE     columna     = PRIOR (columnb)
;If so, that's the kind of thing you should say clearly in your first message, rather than hint at in your third.
As Ow said, you should manufacture a column for use in the BREAK command, and use COLUMN ... NOPRINT if you don't want to see it in the results?
The question here is, what is an appropriate column? CONNECT_BY_ROOT seems to work perfectly for your example
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COLUMN     my_break_column     NOPRINT
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,     columnb
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START WITH          columna     IN (1, 4)
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;The rest of this message is an merely a tangent. I find it interesting, but feel free to skip it.
You might think CONNECT_BY_ISCYCLE was an obvious choice for a BREAK oclumn: you want to skip a line after every output row where CONNECT_BY_ISCYCLE = 1.
Unfortunately, BREAK always works when a column value changes. That is, you can't tell it "Please skip one line after rows where columnz = 1"; all you can say is "Please skip a row before rows where columnz is different than it was on the previous row". (At least that's what I think: I would love it if someone proved me wrong!)
So we have to manufacture some column that keeps its value for an entire loop. The SUM of CONNECT_BY_ISCYCLE (in DESCending order, as returned by the CONNECT BY query) would work. Analytic ORDER BY clauses seem to destroy the order imposed by CONNECT BY, so you'd have to do the CONNECT BY in a sub-query, capture the ROWNUM to preserve the order, and use the analytic SUM function in the main query:
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     ,     columnb
     ,     ROWNUM               AS r_num
     ,     CONNECT_BY_ISCYCLE     AS cycle_val
     FROM     table_x
     START WITH          columna     IN (1, 4)
     CONNECT BY NOCYCLE     columna     = PRIOR (columnb)
SELECT     columna
,     columnb
,     root
,     SUM (cycle_val) OVER (ORDER BY ROWNUM DESC)
--               AS my_break_column
FROM     oq
ORDER BY     r_num
;The only reason for actually doing this is to learn about CONNECT BY queries. CONNECT_BY_ROOT, as shown above, works much better for your requirements.

Insert a blank line at the start of a text file

I'd like to insert a blank line at the start of a text file.
I presume SED would be the best to use? Any help on code would be greatly appreciated?

Hi David,
   That is a little more difficult in sed and awk than it seems like it should be. I'll assume that you know how to handle the redirection and I'll just post the actual sed and awk commands. If you're comfortable with multiline statements in sed it could be done with the following:
sed '1s/./\
Programmatically more complicated but easier to type would be:
sed '1{x;p;g;}'
   I think that it's conceptually simpler in awk using the BEGIN address like so:
awk 'BEGIN{ print }//'
   You'll probably get other responses using other tools. I'm certainly curious to see what develops.
Gary
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