On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 4:59 AM, Chris <sql...@lists.azureblue.org> wrote:
> I'm a relative novice to sqlite (or sql in general), but I do understand
> the value of variable substitution when building queries:
>
> e.g.
> set someValue 23
> db eval {SELECT something FROM myTable WHERE value=$someValue}
>
> It feels like there should be a comparable solution for IN, passing
> instead a Tcl list, but I've failed to find it documented or had any
> trial-and-errorr success.
>
> e.g.
> set someTags {1 23 45}
> db eval {SELECT something FROM myTable WHERE value IN ($someTags)}
>
Can't do this. SQL has no "list" or "array" datatype. So $someTags cannot
be translated into an SQL value.
One work-around:
db transaction {
db eval {CREATE TEMP TABLE someTags(x INTEGER PRIMARY KEY);}
foreach x $someTags {db eval {INSERT INTO someTags VALUES($x)}}
}
db eval {SELECT something FROM myTable WHERE value IN someTags}
--
D. Richard Hipp
d...@sqlite.org
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