RE: Concatenate rows

Wendy,

If I understood you correctly,

You need to create a cursor, then scan it in a loop and have column(s) of each row concatenated to a variable. The variable I feel has to be a varchar2 with enough size to hold the data of all the rows.

Just curious, apparently this does not seem to be a good thing to do, if you could kindly share why do you want to do this.

HTH! Aleem,

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Sent: Friday, March 30, 2001 8:36 PM

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Subject:        Re: Concatenate rows

Hi Wendy,

Here's an example from a PL/SQL procedure:

        inputFromDate := startMonth||'/'||startDay||'/'||startYear;

The '/' is a delimiter, if you don't want one just use:

        inputFromDate := startMonth||startDay||startYear;

The individual data elements in this case were user input on a web browser, but the same syntax applies if the elements had been selected from tables.

Hope this helps.

David A. Barbour
Oracle DBA, OCP

Wendy Y wrote:
>
> Hello:
>
> Is there a way that we can Concatenate several rows (say 6 rows from a
> select statement) into one variable?
>
> Thanks
>
> Wendy
>
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