Re: putting parameters in one parameter....help!!

"deb" <dnanda_at_netcom.ca> wrote:

>hi ,
>i have a problem ...i have a procedure which takes variable number of
>parameters and now the problem is that i need to put these incoming
>parameters into one variable. This one variable is then to be passed to a
>procedure which will then parse these parameters one by one... and break
>them up again to get the orginal set of inputs...i hope i am clear...here is
>my code
>
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>An example would be: 2 variables being passed with the following values -
>argv(1)=10 and argv(2)=20, then the desired result is one text string
>containing--> 'session_id=10;page_id=20'
>

Its not clear from your posting how the 'one variable' will get the multiple values, but if they are concatenated from some 'source' set of values, then you could use a separator between them to allow for easy parsing....for instance:

If you are getting val1, val2 and val3 and concatenating then into param ( so param := val1||val2||val3 ), instead do param := 'Val1'||val1|'Val2||val2||'Val3'||val3.....Then have the procedure check for, say, 'Val3' in the passed parameter - this indicates 3 values have been concatenated - using combinations of substr(), and instr() you should be able to parse out the needed info....

Not very elegant, but should work.....

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