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HCP
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I hope this isn't a stupid question.

I use sql passthrough to retrive my report values. I want to create a variable to use in my sql passthrough that requires embedded quotes. How do I get the quotes in the variable? (This will be a hard coded value and not supplied by the user. I plan to create another file to store these values in one place instead of putting them directly into the sql)

-SET &VARIABLE_NAME = ('111111111', '222222222', '333333333');

This will be used as

select column_value
from table_name
where id in '&variable_name';

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Two quotes = One.

-SET &VARIABLE_NAME = '(''111111111'', ''222222222'', ''333333333'')' ;


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Thanks... that got the quotes to work, but then I got a message about missing end paren's. So I tweaked the variable a bit to get it to work with sql pass through. End result that worked is:

-* use single quote at beginning and end, all others used two quotes
-SET &CLS_ABA_NUMBERS = '111111111'', ''222222222'', ''333333333';

-*added paren's in sql pass through
select column_value
from table_name
where id in ('&variable_name');

Thanks for your help!


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doesn't 7.7.x have a .QUOTEDSTRING operator or something similar? I thought I heard Walter Blood talk about it at out last User Forum.

- ABT


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Here is an exmaple of what we use :

-DEFAULT &AFF='''A'' OR ''B'' OR ''C''';
-SET &L = &AFF.LENGTH ;
-SET &F = 'A' | &L ;
-SET &AFF2 = '(' | STRREP(&L, &AFF, 4,' OR ',2,', ',&L,'&F.EVAL') || ')';

and in the where clause of the select
WHERE B.AFF_CODE IN &AFF2

Hope this will help you.
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