Question : Parsing multiple values (array) to a stored procedure

SQL SERVER 2005   & Reporting Services

Hi, I have a requirement to pass multiple values to a stored procedure.  As I have found out there is no array type in T-SQL.   Having googled it, there are a lot of resources out there with one variation or other but as I am not wonderfully sql orientated its difficult to try and transpose the various suggestions / examples for my own needs to get a working solution.

Basically I currently have a stored procedure that takes a parsed individual order no.  It then determines how many lines are on the order and for every row on the order,  performs a repeat  of the following:  determine the despatched qty and for every unit perform a second repeat  to enter a duplicate line into a temp table from which the labels are then printed.  Ie If my order has 5 lines all of qty 10 depsatched, then  I get 10 identical lines inserted into the temp table for every row on the order  (50 lines total in temp table).

This has been working fine but as always the requirement now is to parse multiple order nos (as selected by a Reporting Services report) to the procedure.  This causes me my headache!!

The current procedure is as below:  Can someone come up with a working solution that I do not have to interpet & significantly change.  

As stated the order nos to be parsed will be generated from a reporting services report where the user will select multiple order nos from a drop down list of order nos in the system.

Thanks

set ANSI_NULLS ON
set QUOTED_IDENTIFIER ON
go

CREATE        procedure [scheme].[label_print] @Order_no char(10) as

DECLARE @order_no char (10)

-- Assign @order_no the parsed variable @Order_no
set @order_no = @Order_no

-- Calculate how many lines on the specified [parsed] order no.
DECLARE @ORDERLINECOUNT as INT;
set     @ORDERLINECOUNT = (select count(1) from scheme.OrderDetails where LTRIM(order_no) = @order_no)

-- create temp table to receive the items to print.
CREATE TABLE [label_print_tmp] (
      [customer] [char] (8) COLLATE Latin1_General_BIN NOT NULL ,
      [name] [char] (32) COLLATE Latin1_General_BIN NOT NULL ,
      [order_no] [char] (10) COLLATE Latin1_General_BIN NOT NULL ,
      [order_line_no] [char] (4) COLLATE Latin1_General_BIN NOT NULL ,
      [warehouse] [char] (2) COLLATE Latin1_General_BIN NOT NULL ,
      [product] [char] (20) COLLATE Latin1_General_BIN NOT NULL ,
      [description] [char] (20) COLLATE Latin1_General_BIN NOT NULL ,
      [unit_of_sale] [char] (10) COLLATE Latin1_General_BIN NOT NULL ,
      [despatched_qty] [float] NULL
) ON [PRIMARY]


-- Repeat next steps for every row on order.
While @ORDERLINECOUNT > 0
  BEGIN

-- get line qty as labels required on a single unit basis (ie qty 10 requires 10 labels printed)
DECLARE @LINEQTYCOUNT as INT;
set     @LINEQTYCOUNT = (select despatched_qty from scheme.OrderDetails where order_no = @order_no and LTRIM(order_line_no) = @ORDERLINECOUNT)

While @LINEQTYCOUNT > 0
  BEGIN
insert into scheme.label_print_tmp select
scheme.OrderHeader.customer, scheme.OrderHeader.name,
scheme.OrderDetails.order_no, scheme.OrderDetails.order_line_no,
scheme.OrderDetails.warehouse, scheme.OrderDetails.product, scheme.OrderDetails.description,
scheme.OrderDetails.unit_of_sale, scheme.OrderDetails.despatched_qty
FROM    scheme.OrderHeader INNER JOIN
            scheme.OrderDetails ON scheme.OrderHeader.order_no = scheme.OrderDetails.order_no INNER JOIN
            scheme.Customer ON scheme.OrderHeader.customer = scheme.Customer.customer
               where scheme.OrderDetails.order_no =@order_no and LTRIM(order_line_no) = @ORDERLINECOUNT
                 and scheme.OrderDetails.line_type != 'C'

set @LINEQTYCOUNT = @LINEQTYCOUNT -1  
END

set @ORDERLINECOUNT=@ORDERLINECOUNT -1;
END

select * from scheme.label_print_tmp

drop table scheme.label_print_tmp

Answer : Parsing multiple values (array) to a stored procedure

Scott,

Good point. I missed the 2nd loop variable.
Kyliem, please ignore my rewrite of your SP and just use the code snippet I posted for parsing a input string and calling your SP. Sorry for the incorrect info.

Thanks
Ray