Splitting comma separated string in a PL/SQL stored proc
This should do what you are looking for.. It assumes your list will always be just numbers. If that is not the case, just change the references to DBMS_SQL.NUMBER_TABLE to a table type that works for all of your data:
CREATE OR REPLACE PROCEDURE insert_from_lists(
list1_in IN VARCHAR2,
list2_in IN VARCHAR2,
delimiter_in IN VARCHAR2 := ','
)
IS
v_tbl1 DBMS_SQL.NUMBER_TABLE;
v_tbl2 DBMS_SQL.NUMBER_TABLE;
FUNCTION list_to_tbl
(
list_in IN VARCHAR2
)
RETURN DBMS_SQL.NUMBER_TABLE
IS
v_retval DBMS_SQL.NUMBER_TABLE;
BEGIN
IF list_in is not null
THEN
/*
|| Use lengths loop through the list the correct amount of times,
|| and substr to get only the correct item for that row
*/
FOR i in 1 .. length(list_in)-length(replace(list_in,delimiter_in,''))+1
LOOP
/*
|| Set the row = next item in the list
*/
v_retval(i) :=
substr (
delimiter_in||list_in||delimiter_in,
instr(delimiter_in||list_in||delimiter_in, delimiter_in, 1, i ) + 1,
instr (delimiter_in||list_in||delimiter_in, delimiter_in, 1, i+1) - instr (delimiter_in||list_in||delimiter_in, delimiter_in, 1, i) -1
);
END LOOP;
END IF;
RETURN v_retval;
END list_to_tbl;
BEGIN
-- Put lists into collections
v_tbl1 := list_to_tbl(list1_in);
v_tbl2 := list_to_tbl(list2_in);
IF v_tbl1.COUNT <> v_tbl2.COUNT
THEN
raise_application_error(num => -20001, msg => 'Length of lists do not match');
END IF;
-- Bulk insert from collections
FORALL i IN INDICES OF v_tbl1
insert into tmp (a, b)
values (v_tbl1(i), v_tbl2(i));
END insert_from_lists;
I use apex_util.string_to_table to parse strings, but you can use a different parser if you wish. Then you can insert the data as in this example:
declare
myString varchar2(2000) :='0.75, 0.64, 0.56, 0.45';
myAmount varchar2(2000) :='0.25, 0.5, 0.65, 0.8';
v_array1 apex_application_global.vc_arr2;
v_array2 apex_application_global.vc_arr2;
begin
v_array1 := apex_util.string_to_table(myString, ', ');
v_array2 := apex_util.string_to_table(myAmount, ', ');
forall i in 1..v_array1.count
insert into mytable (a, b) values (v_array1(i), v_array2(i));
end;
Apex_util is available from Oracle 10G onwards. Prior to this it was called htmldb_util and was not installed by default. If you can't use that you could use the string parser I wrote many years ago and posted here.