Sorting of an Extract

I am sorting an extract using a field-group already defined in the extract. I am adding a field to the field-group at the end. But the extract is not getting sorted by that field. If I insert the field at the beginning of the field group all the subsequent AT NEW statements in the LOOP-ENDLOOP are getting executed as the field has different values for different records. This is logical to insert the feidl at the end only.
The field is also defined in HEADER of the extract. Thsi is regarding 'Cheque Printing' in ABAP. I also tried to add sort by the particular field statement after already inserting sort statement. The entire logic is going for toss in that case. Thsi is regardign a field-group AVIS if anybody knows about Cheque Printing.
please adise me how to achieve this? I want to sort the cheques as per line items in each cheque. the feild for line items is REGUH-RPOST

When you use INSERT statement, modify as follows
INSERT: REGUH-FIELD1 'A' REGUH-RPOST REGUH-FIELD3
INTO header.

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Now say, u have internal table with mateirals....there are 100 records with 10 mterials...
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AND tab2.other_col = '<OTHER TAG>'(That's a highly simplified sql_stmt example, of course - if they were all that small we'd not be needing a clob field!).
I wanted to extract all the tags from the sql_stmt field for a given row, so I can get my (well not "mine" - I'd never have designed something like this, but hey, it works, sorta, and I'm improving it as and where I can!) pl/sql to replace the tags with the correct values. A tag is anything that's in triangular brackets (eg. <RUNID> from the above example)
So, I did this:
SELECT SUBSTR (sql_stmt,
 INSTR (sql_stmt, '<', 1, LEVEL),
 INSTR (substr(sql_stmt, INSTR (sql_stmt, '<', 1, LEVEL)), '>', 1, 1)
 ) tag
FROM export_jobs
WHERE exp_id = p_exp_id
CONNECT BY LEVEL <= (LENGTH (sql_stmt) - LENGTH (REPLACE (sql_stmt, '<')))Which I thought would be fine (having tested it on a text column). However, it runs very poorly against a clob column, for some reason (probably doesn't like the substr, instr, etc on the clob, at a guess) - the waits show "direct path read".
When I cast the sql_stmt as a varchar2 like so:
with my_tab as (select cast(substr(sql_stmt, instr(sql_stmt, '<', 1), instr(sql_stmt, '>', -1) - instr(sql_stmt, '<', 1) + 1) as varchar2(4000)) sql_stmt
 from export_jobs
 WHERE exp_id = p_exp_id)
SELECT SUBSTR (sql_stmt,
 INSTR (sql_stmt, '<', 1, LEVEL),
 INSTR (substr(sql_stmt, INSTR (sql_stmt, '<', 1, LEVEL)), '>', 1, 1)
 ) tag
FROM my_tab
CONNECT BY LEVEL <= (LENGTH (sql_stmt) - LENGTH (REPLACE (sql_stmt, '<')))it runs blisteringly fast in comparison, except when the substr'd sql_stmt is over 4000 chars, of course! Using dbms_lob instr and substr etc doesn't help either.
So, I thought maybe I could find an xml related method, and from this link:get xml node name in loop , I tried:
select t.column_value.getrootelement() node
from (select sql_stmt xml from export_jobs where exp_id = 28) xml,
table (xmlsequence(xml.xml.extract('//*'))) tBut I get this error: ORA-22806: not an object or REF. (It might not be the way to go after all, as it's not proper xml, being as there are no corresponding close tags, but I was trying to think outside the box. I've not needed to use xml stuff before, so I'm a bit clueless about it, really!)
I tried casting sql_stmt into an xmltype, but I got: ORA-22907: invalid CAST to a type that is not a nested table or VARRAY
Is anyone able to suggest a better method of trying to extract my tags from the clob column, please?
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Boneist

I don't know if it may work for you, but I had a similar activity where I defined sql statements with bind variables (:var_name) and then I simply looked for witch variables to bind in that statement through this query.
with x as (
 select ':var1
 /*a block comment
 :varname_dontcatch
 select hello, --line comment :var_no
 ''a string with double quote '''' and a :variable '', --:variable
 :var3,
 :var2, '':var1'''':varno'',
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 from dual
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 select string,
 regexp_replace(string,'(/\*[^*]*\*/)'||'|'||'(--.*)'||'|'||'(''([^'']|(''''))*'')',null) as res
 from x
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from fil
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 inp_string in varchar2
 ) return string_table
 deterministic
 is
 loc_str varchar2(32767);
 loc_idx number;
 out_tab string_table;
 begin
 --dbms_output.put_line('cond = '||inp_string);
 loc_str := regexp_replace(inp_string,'(/\*[^*]*\*/)'||'|'||'(--.*)'||'|'||'(''([^'']|(''''))*'')',null);
 loc_idx := 0;
 out_tab := string_table();
 --dbms_output.put_line('fcond ='||loc_str);
 loop
 loc_idx := regexp_instr(loc_str,'\:[[:alpha:]]([[:alnum:]]|_)*',loc_idx+1);
 exit when loc_idx = 0;
 out_tab.extend;
 out_tab(out_tab.last) := regexp_substr(loc_str,'[[:alpha:]]([[:alnum:]]|_)*',loc_idx+1);
 end loop;
 return out_tab;
 end;
 function divide_string (
 inp_string in varchar2
 --,inp_length in number
 --return string_table
 return dbms_sql.varchar2a
 is
 inp_length number := 256;
 loc_ind_1 pls_integer;
 loc_ind_2 pls_integer;
 loc_string_length pls_integer;
 loc_curr_string varchar2(32767);
 --out_tab string_table;
 out_tab dbms_sql.varchar2a;
 begin
 --out_tab := dbms_sql.varchar2a();
 loc_ind_1 := 1;
 loc_ind_2 := 1;
 loc_string_length := length(inp_string);
 while ( loc_ind_2 < loc_string_length ) loop
 --out_tab.extend;
 loc_curr_string := substr(inp_string,loc_ind_2,inp_length);
 dbms_output.put(loc_curr_string);
 out_tab(loc_ind_1) := loc_curr_string;
 loc_ind_1 := loc_ind_1 + 1;
 loc_ind_2 := loc_ind_2 + length(loc_curr_string);
 end loop;
 dbms_output.put_line('');
 return out_tab;
 end;
 function execute_statement(
 inp_statement in varchar2,
 inp_binds in string_table,
 inp_parameters in parametri
 return number
 is
 loc_stat dbms_sql.varchar2a;
 loc_dyn_cur number;
 out_rows number;
 begin
 loc_stat := divide_string(inp_statement);
 loc_dyn_cur := dbms_sql.open_cursor;
 dbms_sql.parse(c => loc_dyn_cur,
 statement => loc_stat,
 lb => loc_stat.first,
 ub => loc_stat.last,
 lfflg => false,
 language_flag => dbms_sql.native
 for i in inp_binds.first .. inp_binds.last loop
 DBMS_SQL.BIND_VARIABLE(loc_dyn_cur, inp_binds(i), inp_parameters(inp_binds(i)));
 dbms_output.put_line(':'||inp_binds(i)||'='||inp_parameters(inp_binds(i)));
 end loop;
 dbms_output.put_line('');
 --out_rows := DBMS_SQL.EXECUTE(loc_dyn_cur);
 DBMS_SQL.CLOSE_CURSOR(loc_dyn_cur);
 return out_rows;
 end;Bye Alessandro
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Alessandro Rossi
There is something missing in the functions but if there is something that may interest you you can ask.

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