Is Multibyte Name Supported For Placeholder(Bind Variable) In SQL*Plus? (Doc ID 1339845.1)

Last updated on MAY 30, 2023

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Goal

Can mulitibyte characters be used in placeholder(Bind Variable) name in SQL*Plus? Can you use the name of the placeholder as a multibyte string containing non-English multibyte characters?

For Example:

According to the following OCI manual, there is a description about placeholder name restrictions.

http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B28359_01/appdev.111/b28395/oci04sql.htm#i420655
Oracle® Call Interface Programmer's Guide 11g Release 1 (11.1)
Part Number B28395-06
4 Using SQL Statements in OCI
Binding Placeholders in OCI
Rules for Placeholders
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The rules for forming placeholders are:

• The first character is a colon (":").
• This is followed by a combination of underscore ("_"), A-Z, a-z, or 0-9.
  However, the first character following the colon cannot be an underscore.
• The letters must be only from the English alphabet and only the first 30 charac ters after the colon are significant. The name is case-insensitive.
• The placeholder can consist of only digits after the colon. If only digits, it must be less than 65536. If the name starts with a digit, then only digits are allowed.
• The hyphen ("-") is not allowed.

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Can this description be applied to SQL*Plus placeholder(Bind Variable)?

Solution

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