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From: "Brent B dot Powers Swaps Programmer x2293" <powers at swaps-comm dot ml dot com>
Subject: Framing search sql's
Date: Feb 2 1996 2:18AM

Shankar Kris writes:
 > Hello,
 > 
 > I maintain a list that has *data* on which to search for.
 > @list = qw( 1 2 3 4 5);
 > 
 > I frame the 'sql' like this:
 > 
 > $"=',';   
 > $sql = "select col1,col2 from table_name where col1 in (@list)";
 > 
 > This works fine when the search list involves integer data types.
 > 
 > While searching for char data types. since each element has to enclosed
 > in quotes. I am unable to come up with a simple elegant way to frame the
 > search 'sql'. Is there a good way to do this. else I might just loop
 > thru eeach element and frame the sql.
 > 
 > Any suggestions.
 > 
$sql = "select col1, col2 from table_name where col1 in ('" . join("', '",@list) . "')";

Brent B. Powers             Merrill Lynch          powers@swaps.ml.com