Re: how to solve this problem

Just a thought,

Could you achieve that same result using the binary representation of an integer?

Regards,

Richard

--- ivan marchesini <marchesini(at)unipg(dot)it> wrote:

> Dear users,
> I have this problem
>
> I have a table where there are 20 columns named
> vinc1, vinc2, vinc3, vinc4, etc....
>
> the values contained into each column are simply 1 or 0 (each column is
> dichotomic)
> 1 means presence
> 0 means absence
>
> I would obtain a column (new_column) containg the name of the columns,
> comma separated, where the value is = 1
>
> for example:
>
> vinc1 vinc2 vinc3 vinc4 new_column
> 1 0 1 0 vinc1,vinc3
> 0 0 0 1 vinc4
> 0 1 1 1 vinc2,vinc3,vinc4
>
> can someone help me to find the best way to obtain this result???
> thank you very much
>
> Ivan
>
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> Ivan Marchesini
> Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
> University of Perugia
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