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Split One Column With Delimiter To Multiple Columns

This document describes a PL/SQL procedure to split a column containing delimited data into multiple columns and insert it into a table. The procedure uses REPLACE and RPAD functions to split the source string at the delimiter ("$") into multiple columns and pad the empty columns with null values. It calculates the number of columns to pad using a TRANSLATE function to determine the length without the delimiter. Finally, it constructs a dynamic INSERT statement and executes it to populate the target table.

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Split One Column With Delimiter To Multiple Columns

This document describes a PL/SQL procedure to split a column containing delimited data into multiple columns and insert it into a table. The procedure uses REPLACE and RPAD functions to split the source string at the delimiter ("$") into multiple columns and pad the empty columns with null values. It calculates the number of columns to pad using a TRANSLATE function to determine the length without the delimiter. Finally, it constructs a dynamic INSERT statement and executes it to populate the target table.

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SPLIT ONE COLUMN WITH DELIMITER TO MULTIPLE COLUMNS

Feb 21 2010 9:17AM GMT

Posted by: Lakshmi Venkatesh If a delimiter is available on a column and if that needs to be split to multiple columns, then we usually use INSTR and SUBSTR to split into multiple columns and insert into table. Following is a simple demonstration without using multiple INSTRs and SUBSTRs and insert one column with a specified delimiter into multiple columns. Step 1 : Create table script drop table test_tab create table test_tab (col1 varchar2(20), col2 varchar2(20), col3 varchar2(20), col4 varchar2(20), col5 varchar2(20), col6 varchar2(20), col7 varchar2(20), col8 varchar2(20), col9 varchar2(20), col10 varchar2(20)); Step 2. PL/SQL script set serveroutput on size 100000 declare v_data VARCHAR2(200); begin SELECT INSERT INTO TEST_TAB VALUES ( || ||replace(qry.dat, $, ,) || REPLACE(RPAD(chr(10),LENGTH2, chr(14)),chr(14), ,) || ||) INTO v_data from (SELECT 10 - (length(a.dat) - length(translate( a.dat, chr(0)||$, chr(0)))) LENGTH2, a.dat FROM (select abcd$efgh$hijk%lmn$uvp dat from dual) a) qry;

dbms_output.put_line(Value of v_data is || v_data); EXECUTE IMMEDIATE v_Data; END; SQL> @col_tocols.sql 21 / Value of v_data isINSERT INTO TEST_TAB VALUES (abcd,efgh,hijk%lmn,uvp ,,,,,,) PL/SQL procedure successfully completed. OUTPUT SQL> select * from test_Tab; COL1 COL2 COL3 COL4 COL5 COL6 COL7 COL8 COL9 COL10 abcd efgh hijk%lmn uvp Notes Line 1 - SELECT INSERT INTO TEST_TAB VALUES ( Line 2 - || Line 3 - ||replace(qry.dat, $, ,) Line 4 - || REPLACE(RPAD(chr(10),LENGTH2, chr(14)),chr(14), ,) Line 5 - || Line 6 - ||) Line 7 - INTO v_data Line 8 - from Line 9 - (SELECT Line 10 - 10 - (length(a.dat) - length(translate( a.dat, chr(0)||$, chr(0)))) Line 11 - LENGTH2, a.dat Line 12 - FROM Line 13 - (select abcd$efgh$hijk%lmn$uvp dat from dual) a) qry; 1. Line 3 - replace(qry.dat, $, ,) -> Search character $ would be replaced with ,. 2. Line 4 - REPLACE(RPAD(chr(10),LENGTH2, chr(14)),chr(14), ,) -> In the above example there are 3 $ symbols - these will be replaced with ,. For 3 search strings $ this will be split to 3 columns only. But, in the table there are 10 columns. So, to fill rest of the columns use RPAD function.

3. Line 10 & 11 - Translate function will replace one to one character. chr(0) is NULL. chr(0)||$ would be trranslated to chr(0) ignoring the $ which would give the LENGTH of the string excluding the search character. Now, formula is 10 MINUS (Total length of the string MINUS Length of the string excluding search character) -> This will give the length of left out columns in the table. 10 - (22 - 19) => 7

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