RE: Limit on length of decode arguments??

From: Robson, Peter <pgro_at_bgs.ac.uk>
Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2002 01:53:19 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.00479F38.20020611015319@fatcity.com>

Your question:

>
> Is their a length on decode statement??
>

Yes there is, and I think it is about 2000. I ran into exactly that with decode, and had to split the code into 2 decodes. Messy. Long time ago - forgot the actual value at the ceiling.

peter
edinburgh
........

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bob Metelsky [mailto:bmetelsky_at_cps92.com]
> Sent: 10 June 2002 23:03
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> Subject: Limit on length of decode arguments??
>
>
> Hello all
>
> In an effort to clean up data as I'm importing, I need to pass
> the bad data to decode. It seems onece I pass < 250 chars the
> code fails
> with
> SQL*Loader-350: Syntax error at line 93.
> Token longer than max allowable length of 258 chars
>
> The articles on metalink hint on problems with the control
> file, I think
> it's the *length* of argunets passed to decode
>
> (:DEV_DATE 'No Mass'),
> TO_DATE('06/11/1958','mm/dd/yyyy'),TRIM('12/31/200312/31/2003'
> ),TO_DATE(
> '12/31/2003', 'mm/dd/yyyy'),'02/30/2003',TO_DATE('2/28/2003',
> 'mm/dd/yyyy')
>
>
> As soon as I add another comparison the code fails
>
> Is their a length on decode statement??
>
> Thanks
> Bob
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