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Oracle OWA_TEXT Version 26ai

General Information

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Purpose Utitility procedures/functions for manipulating large amounts of text by the standard of 1995 when it was created.

AUTHID DEFINER

Data Types TYPE vc_arr IS TABLE OF VARCHAR2(32767) INDEX BY BINARY_INTEGER; TYPE int_arr IS TABLE OF INTEGER INDEX BY BINARY_INTEGER; TYPE multi_line IS RECORD (rows vc_arr, num_rows INTEGER, partial_row BOOLEAN); TYPE row_list IS RECORD (rows int_arr, num_rows INTEGER);

Dependencies

DBMS_STANDARD

HTP

OWA_PATTERN

Documented No

First Available 8.1.7

Security Model Owned by SYS with EXECUTE granted to PUBLIC

Source {ORACLE_HOME}/rdbms/admin/pubtext.sql
{ORACLE_HOME}/rdbms/admin/privtext.sql

Subprograms

ADD2MULTI	NEW_ROW_LIST	PRINT_ROW_LIST
NEW_MULTI	PRINT_MULTI	STREAM2MULTI

ADD2MULTI

Add a new lineto a multi_line structure owa_text.add2multi( stream IN VARCHAR2, mline IN OUT multi_line, continue IN BOOLEAN DEFAULT TRUE);

DECLARE

       bot VARCHAR2(32767);

       ml  owa_text.multi_line;

      BEGIN

        bot := 'this is a bunch of text that goes on and on and on ...';

        -- extend this to beyond 32K if you wish <g>

      

        owa_text.new_multi(ml);

        owa_text.add2multi(bot, ml, TRUE);

        owa_text.print_multi(ml);

      

        owa_util.showpage;

      END;

      /

NEW_MULTI

Make element routine

Overload 1 owa_text.new_multi RETURN multi_line;

TBD

Overload 2 owa_text.new_multi(mline OUT multi_line);

See ADD2MULTI Demo Above

NEW_ROW_LIST

Standard creation routine for row lists

Overload 1 owa_text.new_multi RETURN return row_list;

TBD

Overload 2 owa_text.new_multi(rlist OUT row_list);

TBD

PRINT_MULTI

uses HTP.PRINT to print out a multi-line structure procedure owa_text.print_multi(mline IN multi_line);

See ADD2MULTI Demo Above

PRINT_ROW_LIST

Print a row list using HTP.PRINT owa_text.print_row_list(rlist IN row_list);

TBD

STREAM2MULTI

Takes in a single stream of text and turns it into a multi_line structure owa_text.stream2multi( stream IN VARCHAR2, mline OUT multi_line);

DECLARE

       bot VARCHAR2(32767);

       ml  owa_text.multi_line;

      BEGIN

        bot := 'this is a bunch of text that goes on and on and on ...';

        -- extend this to beyond 32K if you wish <g>

      

        owa_text.stream2multi(bot, ml);

      

        owa_text.print_multi(ml);

      

        owa_util.showpage;

      END;

      /