Hi,

I have a textbox and Iam entering multiple Id's separated by commas(say abcd,xyz1,pqrs) and while passing to the fex file I need the single quotes to be around the ID's(say something like select * from table where ID in ('abcd','xyz1','pqrs')...

Could anyone please help me on how to do this.

Thanks a lot in advance!

Regards,
Apoorva

This message has been edited. Last edited by: <Kathryn Henning>,

Hi,
Perhaps you can use the STRREP function?
Concatenate a single quote to the beginning and end, then replace the comma with quote-comma-quote.

STRREP: Replacing Character Strings
The STRREP replaces all instances of a specified string within a source string. It also supports replacement by null strings.

Syntax: How to Replace Character Strings

STRREP (inlength, instring, searchlength, searchstring, replength,
repstring, outlength, output)

Hi,
STRREP is fucntion that solves most cases. But it also has it own limitations.

Check this thread, there is very nice solution for it:
http://forums.informationbuild...411028331#2411028331

Try this

''''|'value'|''''

that's 4 single quotes

Hi,

Thanks to all of you for your inputs...Would you mind posting a sample solution for this below CAR file :

-DEFAULT &COUNTRY=ENGLAND,ITALY;



TABLE FILE CAR

PRINT *

WHERE COUNTRY IN (&COUNTRY)

END

-RUN


Thanks a lot in advance!

Regards!

Twanette is correct.

-DEFAULT &COUNTRY= 'ENGLAND,ITALY'

-SET &COUNTRY = TRUNCATE(&COUNTRY);

-SET &COUNTRY = '''' || STRREP (&COUNTRY.LENGTH,&COUNTRY,1,',',3,''',''',1000,'A1000') || '''';

-SET &COUNTRY = TRUNCATE(&COUNTRY);

The DEFAULT has to have quotes around and no semi-colon at the end, as the comma splits the value and the semi-colon is not required. The first TRUNCATE may be useful when value comes from an HTML form. The 1000/A1000 length can be any value that would work with your process.

Hi,

Thanks a lot Alan and everyone for your help.
It worked!

Regards

Here's a little explanation of the 4 ticks:

One tick starts the string literal.
Two ticks escapes it - implying you want to print a single tick - as opposed to ending the string.
The very last tick closes the string literal.

Hi,

Thanks a lot everyone for the help.
It worked!!

Regards!