Question

I want to delete rows which satisfy any of multiple conditions.

For example, I pass a list of IDs, and I want to delete all rows with these IDs (IDs are unique).

This would be:

String[] ids = {"0", "1", "2", "3",...};
database.delete("rows" , "id=? OR id=? OR id=? OR id=? OR ..." , ids );

Is there any way to do it compact without multiple OR?

Answer 1

You may get it done through db.execSQL method and SQL’s IN keyword. For example:

String args = TextUtils.join(", ", ids);

db.execSQL(String.format("DELETE FROM rows WHERE ids IN (%s);", args));