Incorrect column names returned using OCIDescribeAny

I am trying to retrieve column names using OCIDescribeAny and OCIAttrGet api calls.
The column names and the lengths of the column names returned by OCIAttrGet calls are usually correct.
Except when the length of column names are divisible by 4, an extra tab is padded at the end of the returned string by OCIAttrGet.
The length returned by the call is fine.
Example 1.
Column Name:
CITY
Results Returned by OCIAttrGet:
column name: CITY\t
column length: 4
Example 2.
Column Name:
PHONE_NUMBER
Results Returned by OCIAttrGet:
column name: PHONE_NUMBER\t
column length: 12
Does anyone has experience with this?
Edited by: simon780 on Mar 13, 2010 2:48 PM
Edited by: simon780 on Mar 13, 2010 4:03 PM

Thank you for answering my question, I thought I was doing something wrong, since this is my very first time using oci.
I do see non-null terminated strings mentioned from places to places on the oracle docs, but I don't see it mentioned specifically on the attribute OCI_ATTR_NAME.
Anyway, as long as I have the string length returned by the function call, then it's all good. Thank you again!!

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v_insert VARCHAR2 (4000) := NULL;
v_ins_query VARCHAR2 (4000) := NULL;
OPEN insert_csr FOR CASE
WHEN v_where IS NOT NULL
THEN 'SELECT '
|| v_select
|| ' FROM '
|| v_table
|| v_where
|| ';'
ELSE 'SELECT ' || v_select || ' FROM ' || v_table || ';'
END;
LOOP
v_ins_query :=
'INSERT INTO '
|| v_ins_tab
|| '('
|| v_insert
|| ') VALUES ('
|| How to fetch the column names here
|| ');';
EXECUTE IMMEDIATE v_ins_query;
END LOOP;
Please help me out with the above problem.
Edited by: kumar0828 on Feb 7, 2013 10:40 PM
Edited by: kumar0828 on Feb 7, 2013 10:42 PM

>
I Built the statement as required but i need the column list because the first column value of each row should be inserted into one more table.
So i was asking how to fetch the column list in a ref cursor so that value can be inserted in one more table.
>
Then add a RETURNING INTO clause to the query to have Oracle return the first column values into a collection.
See the PL/SQL Language doc
http://docs.oracle.com/cd/B28359_01/appdev.111/b28370/returninginto_clause.htm#sthref2307

Incorrect column names returned using OCIDescribeAny

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