Question

I have a procedure

PROCEDURE Pro
(
  P_IDs VARCHAR2
);

I want to select from a table where IDs match one of the IDs sent in P_IDs

SELECT * FROM Tbl WHERE ID IN ( P_IDs )

P_IDs looks like

'1,2,3,4,5'

What are my options? I think I saw once a way to do it without using custom functions to split the string, I wanted something clean an easy to use.

Answer 1

I found it here:

• Using a comma-separated list in an SQL query

I need to convert it to a XMLTable:

SELECT TO_NUMBER(xt.column_value) FROM XMLTABLE( '1,2,3,4' ) xt

Example usage:

SELECT * FROM Questions q
WHERE q.ID IN ( SELECT TO_NUMBER(xt.column_value) FROM XMLTABLE( '1,2,3,4' ) xt )