IN Operator in Forms

Question

IN operator in forms
Hi,
In the Forms I'm declaring a cursor and the where clause has IN operator
like..
declare
cursor cur is select...
where name in (:global.var_temp);
--:global.var_temp = 'TOM','HARRY','SANDY'
begin
end;
:global.var_temp is list of EMP values selected by user.
It fails to select the records for present names for some reason ?
Is there any other way I can put values for IN operator ?
Regards
N

Answer 1

Hi Nitin,
If I'm not wrong that you're trying to use that global variable as condition values in your cursor statement. I would like to "simulate" it first. If I put the :GLOBAL.var_temp value into Your cursor, it should be like this :
declare
cursor cur is select...
where name in (''TOM','HARRY','SANDY'');
begin
end;
You can see that the quote in front of TOM and quote behind SANDY. That's what happen if you're trying to use that global variable into the cursor, that your cursor become invalid.
I haven't test the solution, but maybe you can try to eliminate the quote in front of your global variable and at the end of your global variable. Try to insert this statement before the declaring section (the most upper of the trigger code):
:GLOBAL.var_temp:=SUBSTR(:GLOBAL.var_temp,2,Length(:GLOBAL.var_Temp)-2);
REMEMBER: I haven't test this solution, if this work don't forget to notice me.
Hope this helps.
Regards,
Franko Lioe
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IN operator in forms
Hi,
In the Forms I'm declaring a cursor and the where clause has IN operator
like..
declare
cursor cur is select...
where name in (:global.var_temp);
--:global.var_temp = 'TOM','HARRY','SANDY'
begin
end;
:global.var_temp is list of EMP values selected by user.
It fails to select the records for present names for some reason ?
Is there any other way I can put values for IN operator ?
Regards
N