How do I pass a comma separated value from another table in an IN clause of a query in oracle.

It didnt work bcoz ID in EFT_PROTESTS table is padded with a leading 0. Try this.

SELECT * from EFT_PROTESTS  eftprot where LPAD(eftprot.reason_cd, 2, '0') IN
(select b.prog_value from BATCH_CONTROL b where b.prog_name = 'EFT')

Thank you for your prompt reply. I tried to LPAD it but the query does not return any results. It still shows no rows returned. it should have returned two rows as reason codes A1 and A2 are in the comma separated list in  batch_control table.
ID  Job_Name ......  REASON_CD
01  batch1.........A1
02  batch2.........A2

Thank you so much Jinesh. That was of great help!!

INSTR(bc.prog_value, ep.reason_cd) != 0

will work provided none of your reason_cd values are substrings of each other
and none of your reason_cd values have the prog_value delimiter in them.

To be safe, you must check the exact value of each delimited element from batch_control.  


The only way I know to do that safely is with a function that splits the delimited string....

Here's an example....




CREATE OR REPLACE TYPE VCARRAY  AS TABLE OF VARCHAR2(4000);


CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION str2tbl(p_string IN VARCHAR2, p_delimiter IN VARCHAR2 := ',')
    RETURN vcarray PIPELINED
AS
    v_length   NUMBER := LENGTH(p_string);
    v_start    NUMBER := 1;
    v_index    NUMBER;
BEGIN
    WHILE(v_start <= v_length)
    LOOP
        v_index    := INSTR(p_string, p_delimiter, v_start);

        IF v_index = 0
        THEN
            PIPE ROW(SUBSTR(p_string, v_start));
            v_start    := v_length + 1;
        ELSE
            PIPE ROW(SUBSTR(p_string, v_start, v_index - v_start));
            v_start    := v_index + 1;
        END IF;
    END LOOP;

    RETURN;
END str2tbl;
/


select * from eft_protests,
where  reason_code in (select column_value from batch_control, table(str2tbl(prog_value,','))

sorry, I see was too late to help.

Hopefully your data is populated in such a way that the INSTR way won't give false positives.