RE: pls/sql help please

From: Eugene Pipko <eugene.pipko_at_unionbay.com>
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2010 11:51:46 -0800
Message-ID: <34DB87F47199374280ADFD2968CDBCFA88160347AB_at_MAIL01KT.seattlepacificindustries.com>

Michael,
I know for sure that the last character is TAB. I opened a file with Word and turned on formatting.

Eugene Pipko
Seattle Pacific Industries
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From: Michael Moore [mailto:michaeljmoore_at_gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, January 28, 2010 11:26 AM To: Eugene Pipko
Cc: oracle-l_at_freelists.org
Subject: Re: pls/sql help please

Since you are not showing the entire program it's hard to say what the problem is. However, this might help you to figure it out: The point is, you can use DUMP to examine your string more carefully.

DECLARE

   vsize_fieldin                 VARCHAR2( 120 ) :=    'TECH'
                                                    || CHR( 09 );
   vsize_field                   VARCHAR2( 120 );

BEGIN
   SELECT DUMP( vsize_fieldin, 16 )

     INTO vsize_field
     FROM DUAL;

   DBMS_OUTPUT.put_line( TO_CHAR( vsize_field )); END; On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 10:36 AM, Eugene Pipko <eugene.pipko_at_unionbay.com<mailto:eugene.pipko_at_unionbay.com>> wrote: Hi all,
I have the following line in the file in the text file being sent to me (just an example):

x                                              16         18         20         22         24                     <- tab (hidden)

Very last character on that line is TAB character. I am trying to account for that, but for some reason can't catch it:

vSize_field := TRIM(SUBSTR(vLine,C_SIZE_FIELD_START,C_SIZE_FIELD_LEN)); vSize_id := sc_get_size_fn(vSize_field,' ');

WHILE ( vSize_field IS NOT NULL OR TRIM(vSize_field) <> ' ' OR TRIM(vSize_id) <> CHR(9) ) LOOP

• store values in collection vNext_row := NVL(sc_size.LAST,0)+1; sc_size(vNext_row) := vSize_id;
• progress down the line C_SIZE_FIELD_START := C_SIZE_FIELD_START + C_SIZE_FIELD_LEN;
• retrieve current values vSize_field := TRIM(SUBSTR(vLine,C_SIZE_FIELD_START,C_SIZE_FIELD_LEN)); vSize_id := sc_get_size_fn(vSize_field,' ');

END LOOP; What am I missing?
Thanks,

Eugene Pipko
Seattle Pacific Industries
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cell: 206.304.7726
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