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Re: most idiomatic way to iterate over an associative array?

by "stephen O'D" <stephen.odonnell@[EMAIL PROTECTED] > May 7, 2008 at 01:37 PM

On May 7, 5:28 pm, Mark D Powell <Mark.Pow...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> On May 7, 4:07 am, Robert Klemme <shortcut...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
>
>
> > On May 7, 6:51 am, m...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:
>
> > > This is what I'm doing now... is there a better way?
> > > It would be great if there were some construct such
> > > as 'for i in x begin ... end;'
>
> > >     i := x.first;
> > >     loop
> > >         dbms_output.put_line(i);
> > >         exit when i = x.last;
> > >         i := x.next(i);
> > >     end loop;
>
> > > Many TIA!
> > > Mark
>
> > This will break for empty collections.  You can do
>
> > SQL> set serverout on
> > SQL> DECLARE  TYPE population_type IS TABLE OF NUMBER INDEX BY
> > VARCHAR2(64);
> >   2    continent_population population_type;
> >   3    which VARCHAR2(64);
> >   4  BEGIN
> >   5    dbms_output.put_line('-----------');
> >   6
> >   7    which := continent_population.FIRST;
> >   8    while which is not null loop
> >   9      dbms_output.put_line(which || ' -> ' ||
> > continent_population(which));
> >  10      which := continent_population.NEXT(which);
> >  11    end loop;
> >  12
> >  13    dbms_output.put_line('-----------');
> >  14
> >  15    continent_population('Australia') := 30000000;
> >  16    continent_population('Antarctica') := 1000; -- Creates new
> > entry
> >  17    continent_population('Antarctica') := 1001; -- Replaces
> > previous value
> >  18
> >  19    which := continent_population.FIRST;
> >  20    while which is not null loop
> >  21      dbms_output.put_line(which || ' -> ' ||
> > continent_population(which));
> >  22      which := continent_population.NEXT(which);
> >  23    end loop;
> >  24
> >  25    dbms_output.put_line('-----------');
> >  26  END;
> >  27  /
> > -----------
> > -----------
> > Antarctica -> 1001
> > Australia -> 30000000
> > -----------
>
> > PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.
>
> > SQL>
>
> > Cheers
>
> > robert
>
> >
seehttp://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B19306_01/appdev.102/b14261/collec......
>
> I think I would consider the For I in 1..n construct
>
> UT1 > l
>   1  declare
>   2  type t_array is table of varchar2(10) index by binary_integer;
>   3  t_list   t_array;
>   4  begin
>   5  t_list(1) := 'one';
>   6  t_list(2) := 'two';
>   7  t_list(3) := 'three';
>   8  t_list(4) := 'four';
>   9  t_list(5) := 'five';
>  10  for I in 1..t_list.last loop
>  11    dbms_output.put_line(t_list(I));
>  12  end loop;
>  13* end;
> UT1 > /
> one
> two
> three
> four
> five
>
> PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.
>
> Again as Robert warned in his solution the array should not be empty.
>
> HTH -- Mark D Powell --

I am fairly sure if you do

for i in 1 .. v_array.count loop
  null;
end loop;

It will happily handle an empty array (don't have access to Oracle
right now to check).
 




 9 Posts in Topic:
most idiomatic way to iterate over an associative array?
mh@[EMAIL PROTECTED]   2008-05-07 04:51:11 
Re: most idiomatic way to iterate over an associative array?
Robert Klemme <shortcu  2008-05-07 01:07:27 
Re: most idiomatic way to iterate over an associative array?
Mark D Powell <Mark.Po  2008-05-07 09:28:47 
Re: most idiomatic way to iterate over an associative array?
Urs Metzger <urs@[EMAI  2008-05-08 20:02:58 
Re: most idiomatic way to iterate over an associative array?
"stephen O'D" &  2008-05-07 13:37:18 
Re: most idiomatic way to iterate over an associative array?
Mark D Powell <Mark.Po  2008-05-07 17:19:04 
Re: most idiomatic way to iterate over an associative array?
Mark D Powell <Mark.Po  2008-05-08 11:01:37 
Re: most idiomatic way to iterate over an associative array?
"stephen O'D" &  2008-05-09 08:57:11 
Re: most idiomatic way to iterate over an associative array?
Mark D Powell <Mark.Po  2008-05-10 07:08:54 

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