Re: UTL_FILE question

From: Viktor <stant_98_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Sun, 1 Feb 2004 09:18:00 -0800 (PST)
Message-ID: <20040201171800.70750.qmail@web13425.mail.yahoo.com>

Thanks Connor,  

I'll give it a try. but i am still not quite sure how i can manipulate the file name so that for month1, filename is <filename_200201.txt> month2 - <filename_200202.txt.  

Thanks again for your help!
Connor McDonald <hamcdc_at_yahoo.co.uk> wrote: declare
prev_mth number := -1;
begin
for i in my_big_24mth_cursor loop
if to_number(to_char(i.date_of_interest,'MM')) != prev_mth then if utl_file.is_open(f) then
close file;
end if;
open file;
prev_mth := to_number(to_char(i.date_of_interest,'MM')); end if;
write line to file
end loop;
end;

or thereabouts

hth
connor

• Viktor wrote: > Hello,
  >
  > I have a procedure that open a cursor and dumps some data for last 24 months to a file. The date
  > range is static condition defined inside the cursor. Procedure is working great, but I what I'm
  > having problem figuring out is if there is a way to create not one file with all the data, but
  > multiple files with monthly sets of data. This way data for month1 is created as
  > and so forth.
  >
  > Thanks much!
  >
  > Viktor
  >
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