Re: how to solve this problem

Just a thought,

Could you achieve that same result using the binary representation of an integer?

Regards,

Richard

--- ivan marchesini <marchesini@unipg.it> wrote:

> Dear users,
> I have this problem 
> 
> I have a table where there are 20 columns named
> vinc1, vinc2, vinc3, vinc4, etc....
> 
> the values contained into each column are simply 1 or 0  (each column is
> dichotomic)
> 1 means presence
> 0 means absence
> 
> I would obtain a column (new_column) containg the name of the columns,
> comma separated, where the value is = 1
> 
> for example:
> 
> vinc1    vinc2    vinc3    vinc4    new_column
> 1    0    1    0    vinc1,vinc3
> 0    0    0    1    vinc4
> 0    1    1    1    vinc2,vinc3,vinc4
> 
> can someone help me to find the best way to obtain this result???
> thank you very much
> 
> Ivan
> 
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> -- 
> Ivan Marchesini
> Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
> University of Perugia
> Via G. Duranti 93/a 
> 06125
> Perugia (Italy)
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