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| fenway_frank |
 Posted: Wed Aug 14, 2013 2:30 pm Post subject: ESQL single quote literals |
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hello all.
attempting to concatenate the value of a local variable with single quotes and my efforts have proven futile thus far. btw, this is broker v8002 if you were interested.
here's my desired output:
[gep63_consumerIdentifier='AX001074']
the value of consumerIdentifier (in this case AX001074) will change per request and is stored in a local CHAR variable. i need to concat single quotes around the value like this.. 'AX001074'
below is the ESQL code.
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DECLARE consumerId CHAR UCASE(InputRoot.SOAP.Header.scc:ServiceCallContext.scc:From);
DECLARE part1 CHAR '[gep63_consumerIdentifier=';
DECLARE part2 CHAR '' || consumerId || '' || ']';
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as currently coded, variable part2 returns AX001074] without single quotes around consumerId's value.
i've tried several approaches but can't escape the single quote properly.
for example :
DECLARE part2 CHAR ''' || consumerId || ''' || ']';
returns '|| consumerId ||']
thoughts? |
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| mqjeff |
| Posted: Wed Aug 14, 2013 2:38 pm Post subject: |
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I think you need 4 single-quotes to get one single-quote.
Because you need to create a constant string that consists of a single quote. When using a single quote inside a constant string, you must put in two single quotes (''). You must then surround those two single quotes with a pair of single quotes ('literalvalue').
So '<single-quote>' is ''''. |
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| mqsiuser |
| Posted: Wed Aug 14, 2013 3:45 pm Post subject: |
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| fjb_saper |
| Posted: Wed Aug 14, 2013 8:37 pm Post subject: |
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Looks at me like you're overly complicating things...
so you want the end result to be
Value of variable gep63_consumerIdentifier (field or attribute) is AX001074
if that is the case you should have a construct like this
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SET part1 = 'gep63_consumerIdentifier';
SET part2 = 'AX001074';
SET ref.{part1} = part2; |
If for whatever reason you need to build the literal including the ] you should use assuming the same part 1 and 2 from the above example
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set value='[' || part1 || '=''' || part2 || ''']';
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SET part1='[gep63_consumerIdentifier=';
SET part2='''' || consumerId || ''']'; --text quote+escaped quote + text quote +concat+variable+concat + text quote +escaped quote + bracket + text quote
SET variable = part1 || part2;
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I'd like you to also consider how you'd want to handle the case where consumerId is empty or is null...
Have fun 
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| fenway_frank |
| Posted: Thu Aug 15, 2013 5:54 am Post subject: |
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thanks to all for prompt feedback. your suggestion to include four single quotes worked like a charm.
@fjb_saper : yes, i am checking for empty/null condition prior to this string concat operation... did not copy that stuff into the code snippet i provided. |
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| kimbert |
| Posted: Thu Aug 15, 2013 10:47 am Post subject: |
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here's my desired output:
[gep63_consumerIdentifier='AX001074'] |
Looks like a data format to me. So a Data Format Description Language could be useful 
Don't worry - I do understand that for a single field, using DFDL might be overkill. But if you are building up several fields like this in a structure then you definitely should be looking at using DFDL.
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| Simbu |
| Posted: Thu Aug 15, 2013 10:12 pm Post subject: |
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| kimbert wrote: |
| if you are building up several fields like this in a structure then you definitely should be looking at using DFDL. |
Thanks for the suggestion kimbert. I tried this scenario and implemented using DFDL. |
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