Substituting values

Question

Hi all,
I am using Forms 6i
Based on a table field i have to bring the content to the form and the some part content have to get filled with other values .
That is, suppose table xyz has a field xy which is having a content like
"*It is my pleasure to inform you that you have been promoted to the position of with effect from with effect from*" ..... etc etc
so, this content have to be displayed in form , the user can edit it also.
There is some parameter values which have to be filled in between the content when it get saved to table PQR
the contents will be stored in PQR.desc, the parameter title and value stored in title_name and param_value field in table PQR
that is ,for this case, if the parameter have position and date , when saving ,the content should be
saved like
"It is my pleasure to inform that you have been promoted to the position of *HR Manager* with effect from *15-JUN-2010*"
Thanks in advance,
Rinz
Edited by: Rinz on Jun 14, 2010 3:51 PM
Edited by: Rinz on Jun 14, 2010 3:52 PM

Answer 1

Save your editable text with placeholders and when retrieving the text replace the placeholders with the values you want.
e.g.:
SQL> select replace(replace(replace('Today is the %1 of %2 in the year %3', '%1', to_char(sysdate, 'DD')), '%2', to_char(sysdate, 'MONTH')), '%3', to_char(sysdate, 'YYYY')) as txt from dual;
TXT
Today is the 14 of JUNE      in the year 2010
SQL>cheers