Sql report on item - problem with commas in the string

Question

I have a simple report that groups all the Job Titles entered on our database.
I pass the job title to an apex item and then on a second page list the records that match that job title using:
and ed.ede_job_title = :P35_JOB_TITLE
If there is a comma in the job title the report returns the records that match the string up to the point the comma appears not the full string.
So 'Project Manager, Operations' matches all the 'Project Manager' records.
Also when there is a leading space in the job title the report displays the jobtitle without the leading space.
Apologies if this is answered elsewhere, I did search.

Answer 1

Check the actual URL up in the location bar. Your comma may actually be dropping out there, because it isn't encoded such that in value commas can be differentiated from delimiters, so the fields aren't lining up in the URL properly.
When you go to a page that takes in parameters for assignment in the link, it has 2 fields. The first is the comma separated list of the item names on the page to assign, which wouldn't contain commas in their names. The other field in the URL is a comma separated list of values to be assigned to the previous list. Since these values aren't encoded, the comma in the value is picked up as delimiter and not a part of the value. I have an example I can load up to apex.oracle.com if you need.
-Richard
Edited by: rwendel on Aug 13, 2009 11:51 AM