Re: how to convert a string array to a string. fct array_to_string seem to work only for INT array??

On Thursday, May 10, 2007 6:07 AM David Gagnon wrote

> I have a string array(Compte[]) and I need to create the following string
> statement to populate a temporary table
>
> statement := ' INSERT INTO T_CR1 ( CRNUM, CRMONT, CSGLNUM, CRDATE)
> SELECT CRNUM, CSGLNUM, CRMONT, CRDATE
> FROM CR INNER JOIN CS ON CR.CRNUM = CS.CSCRNUM AND
> CR.CRYPNUM = CS.CSYPNUM
> WHERE CRYPNUM = ' || quote_literal(companyId) || '
> AND CRDATE <= CURRENT_DATE
> AND CSGLNUM IN {' || array_to_string(Compte, ',') || '}';
>
> EXECUTE statement;
>
> For now I get :
>
> INSERT INTO T_CR1 ( CRNUM, CRMONT, CSGLNUM, CRDATE)
> SELECT CRNUM, CSGLNUM, CRMONT, CRDATE
> FROM CR INNER JOIN CS ON CR.CRNUM = CS.CSCRNUM AND
> CR.CRYPNUM = CS.CSYPNUM
> WHERE CRYPNUM = 'M'
> AND CRDATE <= CURRENT_DATE
> AND CSGLNUM IN {cpt1, cpt2}
>
> But I want:
>
> INSERT INTO T_CR1 ( CRNUM, CRMONT, CSGLNUM, CRDATE)
> SELECT CRNUM, CSGLNUM, CRMONT, CRDATE
> FROM CR INNER JOIN CS ON CR.CRNUM = CS.CSCRNUM AND
> CR.CRYPNUM = CS.CSYPNUM
> WHERE CRYPNUM = 'M'
> AND CRDATE <= CURRENT_DATE
> AND CSGLNUM IN {'cpt1', 'cpt2'}
>
> How can I do that. I expected to find a standard function in the doc to
> do that ...

One way is to include the ' in with the delimiter, and start and end the
string with ' as:

AND CSGLNUM IN {' || '\'' || array_to_string(Compte, '\', \'') || '\''
|| '}';

Regards,
George