Pro*C - Oracle 8i - EXEC SQL SELECT fun and formating

Another thing, it seems that the break commands in the above code is causing problems such as compiling errors such as "break" outside of for or switch statement whenever I try to add additional code to other functions...grrr

aleinss

One more point, normally for Pro*C, I use VARCHAR datatypes to map to character datatypes. So if the above does not work, try this also. Below, I've changed the char to varchar. Note that with varchar you have to set the length of the variable after you fetch the value into it.

Try below:


void print_table() {

EXEC SQL BEGIN DECLARE SECTION;

VARCHAR db_name[21];
VARCHAR db_address[31];
VARCHAR db_id[10];
VARCHAR db_class[2];
int db_overdue=0;

EXEC SQL END DECLARE SECTION;

EXEC SQL DECLARE member_cursor CURSOR FOR
            SELECT *
            FROM MEMBER;

EXEC SQL OPEN member_cursor;

EXEC SQL WHENEVER NOT FOUND DO break;

printf("\nLibrary Member List\n");  
printf("\n\nName\t\tAddress\t\t\tID\tClass\t# of Overdue Materials\n");
printf("------\t---------\t\t----------\t---\t-----\n");

for (;;) {
         EXEC SQL FETCH member_cursor INTO :db_name, :db_address, :db_id, :db_class,
         :db_overdue;

          /**sora has added this bit here***/
          db_name.len = strlen((char *)db_name.arr);
          db_id.len = strlen((char *)db_id.arr);
          db_address.len = strlen((char *)db_address.arr);
          db_class.len = strlen((char *)db_class.arr);
          /***also added some type casting here*****/
         printf("%s%s%s%s%i\n",(char *)db_name.arr,(char *)db_address.arr ,(char *)db_id.arr , (char *)db_class.arr , db_overdue.arr );
    }

    EXEC SQL CLOSE member_cursor;
    EXEC SQL COMMIT WORK RELEASE;
    return;
}




sora

The following examples should correct the problem,
meanwhile providing a reference how to handle string
format: such as %m.ns, %-n.ms, %+n.ms, %0n.ms, ...
where m, n are numbers for width and precision. Find a C book (for example C&R) and read the section on printf.

printf("%20.20s %30.30s %9.9s %1.1s %i\n",db_name,db_address,db_id,db_class,db_overdue);

printf("%-20s %30.30s %9.9s %1.1s %i\n",db_name,db_address,db_id,db_class,db_overdue);

.....

Good luck.

PS. sora's sugguestion should be also work.

For proper titling you can do the following

right pad all your field values to the maximum length of the column and do the same for the headings as well.

Alternatively, you can put tabs in between the field values when you printed them. I noticed that you have tabs in the printf statement for the title/header but no tabs for the field values.

In the above code (from my previous post), replace the printf statement for the field values with this one and see if it looks any better


        printf("%s\t\t%s\t\t\t%s\t%s\t%i\n",(char *)db_name.arr,(char *)db_address.arr ,(char *)db_id.arr , (char
*)db_class.arr , db_overdue.arr );



sora

The example below may be helpful for title format:

printf("%-10.10s%s\n", "Employee", "Salary");
printf("%-10.10s%s\n", "--------", "------");

Thanks guys, I'll give these a shot in a day or two.

Duh...that was too simple...it was the null thing...geese, I'm dense.

In terms of the titling, I just spaced it out by hand.
I was putting " " in the printf statement instead of just using regular spaces.

Thank you to everyone for you help.