RE: how to do a variable in-list of numbers?

Sorry, I totally misunderstood the question. Gotta improve my grasping. (but how?)

Regards,
Charu.

-----Original Message-----
Sent: Friday, August 29, 2003 8:29 PM
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Hi,

Can you not use the query that fetches the numbers to be part of the 'inlist' directly in the insert statement itself?

insert into tab2
select col1
from tab1
where col2 in (select num from .....);

If you want to reuse the same 'inlist' for the rest of the session, you could use temp tables.

Regards,
Charu

-----Original Message-----
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rgaffuri_at_cox.net
Sent: Friday, August 29, 2003 8:07 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

I need to do an insert select of the form

insert into tab2
select col1
from tab1
where col2 in (inlist of numbers);

I do not know how many values will be in my inlist at runtime. With strings I just build a big string. How do I build an 'inlist' of numbers at runtime?

Im using a cursor to determine which values need to be added to my inlist. I think I can do some kind of cast, but im not familiar with it.

Im on 8i. I do not want to j ust run this inside my cursor. It could then execute 300-400 times and will run all day.

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