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9.4 Enclose each string member with quotation marks during concatenation

 
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Concatenate members of a sequence into a string while enclosing each member with quotation marks.
Find which states employees of each department are based, and separate state names with the space. As certain state names contain the space, we need to enclose each state name with quotation marks to distinguish them. Below is Employee table:

ID NAME SURNAME STATE DEPT SALARY
1 Rebecca Moore California R&D 7000
2 Ashley Wilson New York Finance 11000
3 Rachel Johnson New Mexico Sales 9000
4 Emily Smith Texas HR 7000
5 Ashley Smith Texas R&D 16000
… … … … … …

In SPL, A.concat() function works with @q option to enclose each string members with double quotation marks at concatenation. Similarly, the function uses @i option to enclose each string member with single quotation marks at concatenation.

SPL script:

A
1 =connect(“db”)
2 =A1.query@x(“select * from Employee”)
3 =A2.group(DEPT; ~.id(STATE):STATES)
4 =A3.new(DEPT, STATES.concat@q(" "):STATES)

A1 Connect to the data source.
A2 Import Employee table.
A3 Group Employee table by department and get distinct state names for each group.
A4 Use A.concat() function to concatenate state names of each group into a string, during which @q option encloses each member with double quotation marks.

Execution result:

DEPT STATES
Administration “Florida” “Pennsylvania”
Finance “California” “Colorado” “Florida” “Georgia” “Illinois” “Michigan” “New Jersey” “New York” “North Carolina”
… …

 

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