How to loop through a delimited list in Oracle PLSQL

Question

I am working on an Oracle procedure that calls another procedure within it. One of my parameters (parm1) can contain one or more values in a comma separated lis

Answer 1

Just loop through substrings:

declare 
  parm1 varchar2(1000) := '123,234,345,456,567,789,890';

  vStartIdx binary_integer;
  vEndIdx   binary_integer;
  vCurValue varchar2(1000);
begin

  vStartIdx := 0;
  vEndIdx   := instr(parm1, ','); 

  while(vEndIdx > 0) loop
    vCurValue := substr(parm1, vStartIdx+1, vEndIdx - vStartIdx - 1);

    -- call proc here
    dbms_output.put_line('->'||vCurValue||'<-');

    vStartIdx := vEndIdx;
    vEndIdx := instr(parm1, ',', vStartIdx + 1);  
  end loop;

  -- Call proc here for last part (or in case of single element)
  vCurValue := substr(parm1, vStartIdx+1);
  dbms_output.put_line('->'||vCurValue||'<-');

end;