How to write the char value as is in the CSV file

Question

Hi Everyone,
I am creating csv files which contains inventory details for all the products. I am able to create the csv file with utl file concepts. My problem starts after the csv file is being created.
some of the product numbers(Though I am saying Product number, it is varchar2 data type in the table) is like this 3E-12, 3E-54 and so on. I have totally 23 product numbers like this.
When the user opens the csv file it is changing to numbers like this 3.00E-12, 3.00E-54. I want to keep the product number as it is like char value. I tried many quoting and concat methods.
But none of them works for me.
I am using oracle 9i.
Oracle9i Enterprise Edition Release 9.2.0.7.0 - Production
With the Partitioning, OLAP and Oracle Data Mining options
JServer Release 9.2.0.7.0 - Production
Please help me to solve this problem.
Thanks in advance,
Vimal...

Answer 1

Hi Friends,
Thanks for the immediate response. Here is my code.
CREATE OR REPLACE PROCEDURE DATA_TO_CSV_FILE
IS
l_file_ptr UTL_FILE.file_type;
l_hdr_text VARCHAR2 (4000);
l_dynamic_sql_str VARCHAR2 (4000);
TYPE l_dynamic_sql IS REF CURSOR;
l_dynamic_cursor l_dynamic_sql;
l_org_id_select VARCHAR2 (200);
l_master_org_id NUMBER;
l_category VARCHAR2 (40);
l_itemno VARCHAR2 (40);
l_description VARCHAR2 (240);
l_brand VARCHAR2 (240);
l_organization_id NUMBER;
l_oh NUMBER;
l_status apps.mtl_system_items.inventory_item_status_code%TYPE;
BEGIN
l_file_ptr := UTL_FILE.fopen ('CSV_DIR', 'inventory.csv', 'w');
l_dynamic_sql_str :=
'SELECT mc.segment2 CATEGORY, itm.segment1 itemno '
|| 'itm.description description, LOG.brand brand,'
|| 'NVL (m.oh, 0) oh'
|| '(select msi.inventory_item_status_code from apps.mtl_system_items msi'
|| ' where msi.inventory_item_id = itm.inventory_item_id'
|| ' and msi.organization_id = '
|| l_master_org_id
|| ' ) status '
|| ' FROM xxx_custom_table m,'
|| ' apps.mtl_item_categories ic,'
|| ' apps.mtl_categories_b mc,'
|| ' apps.mtl_system_items itm,'
|| ' xxx_custom_table1 LOG,'
|| ' xxx_custom_table2 cap'
|| ' WHERE m.item_id(+) = itm.inventory_item_id'
|| ' AND m.org_id(+) = itm.organization_id'
|| ' AND itm.segment1 = cap.itemno(+)'
|| ' AND itm.inventory_item_id = ic.inventory_item_id'
|| ' AND itm.organization_id = ic.organization_id'
|| ' AND ic.category_id = mc.category_id'
|| ' AND mc.segment2 IS NOT NULL'
|| ' AND itm.inventory_item_id = LOG.inventory_item_id'
|| l_org_id_select
|| ' GROUP BY mc.segment2,'
|| ' itm.segment1,itm.inventory_item_id,itm.description,'
|| ' LOG.brand,LOG';
OPEN l_dynamic_cursor FOR l_dynamic_sql_str;
LOOP
FETCH l_dynamic_cursor
INTO
l_category, l_itemno, l_description, l_brand, l_status,l_oh;
EXIT WHEN l_dynamic_cursor%NOTFOUND;
UTL_FILE.put_line (
l_file_ptr,
l_CATEGORY
|| ','
|| l_itemno
|| ','
|| l_description
|| ','
|| l_status
|| ','
|| l_brand
|| ','
|| l_oh
END LOOP;
UTL_FILE.fclose (l_file_ptr);
END;
Hey damorgan,
Can you please give me little more detail about your workaround method. I think I did the ODBC Connection Once for MS ACCESS database. I
hope you are taking about the same method.
Thanks
Vimal....