GNADE User's Guide: GNADE, The GNat Ada Database Environment; Version 1.4.2; Document Revision $Revision: 1.40 $ | ||
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This section contains the FAQ's of the GNADE project.
I like to use strings in the WHERE clause of a query, but nothing seems to work.
In such a situation a length indicator is needed. This is done by adding the INDICATOR keyword as shown below.
Example A-1. Using a string in the WHERE clause
EXEC SQL BEGIN DECLARE SECTION END-EXEC firstname : CHAR(1..80); .. EXEC SQL END DECLARE SECTION END-EXEC move( name, firstname ); namelength := INDICATOR_TYPE(name'Legnth); SELECT number, ............... contact_postcode, contact_country INTO :stu_number, ............... :stu_contact_postcode, :stu_contact_country FROM STUDENT WHERE name_first = :firstname INDICATOR :namelength
Since GNADE version 1.1.9 the data type VARCHAR has been introduced which already includes the length indicator.