Owa_util.ident_arr

Question

Does anyone know how to use this datatype? From what I understand, I use this to capture multiple selections from a drop list. That's all well and good, but is there any way to convert that into a string (delimited) that I can stick into a database column of type varchar2? Help! Please!

Answer 1

You should define an empty variable for the package where you will use this type as a default and for the procedure that will read the array. The code should look something like this...
create package test_package as
empty_array owa_util.ident_arr;
procedure read_proc (the_array owa_util.ident_arr default empty_array);
procedure read_proc is
end;
To grab the data from the array you can then have the procedure perform a loop through the array and reads the values as follows:
create procedure read_proc (the_array owa_util.ident_arr default empty_array) is
begin
for i in 1..the_array loop
htp.p('Value at '| |i| |'= '| |the_array(i));
end loop;
(This is pretty much a high level example). Hope this helps,
- Alex
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