Creating Hyperlink from PL/SQL

Question

I have created a procedure to create a course catalog listing and would like to include a hyperlink in the output. Is this possible? If yes, how would I go about doing this?
Any help would be deeply appreciative.

Answer 1

As you are using SQLPlus to create a file, you could use it to obtain a HTML file. <br>
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Supposing you have a table named Courses, with three columns: ID, NAME and URL, you could try something like this: <br>
SET MARKUP HTML ON SPOOL ON HEAD "<TITLE>List of courses</TITLE>"
COLUMN NAME HEADING 'Course Name'
COLUMN URLLINK HEADING 'Link'
SET ECHO OFF
SPOOL C:\LIST_OF_COURSES.HTML
SELECT ID, NAME, '< a href="http://'||URL||'">'||URL||'</a>' URLLINK
FROM MIGUEL.COURSES;
SPOOL OFF
set MARKUP HTML OFF
SET ECHO ONAnd you could open your new HTML file in any browser. <br>
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Regards, <br>
Miguel