Thre's more than one way to acomplish that. Using XML is my favorite. See Re: Variable IN Message #834232

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>I need to used the following statement in a stored procedure:
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>Select * from Fruits where FruitName in ('Apple', 'Banana', 'Coconuts')
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>Apple, Banana, & Coconut are values that will be supplied by the user using a listbox which allows multiple selection. There is no limit on the number of items that the user can select. It can be 1 or 10 or more. Is there a way I can pass these values into a single paramter so I can use it like:
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>Select * from Fruits where FruitName in (@Parameter)
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>I have tried putting all the values in a single variable formated for the IN clause.
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>x="'Apple', 'Banana', 'Coconut'"
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>Passing this to the stored procedure generates an error "To many parameters passed!" which is true because when...
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>cn.Execute("spFruit " & x)
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>... is evaluated it looks like...
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>cn.Execute("spFruit 'Apple', 'Banana', 'Coconut'")
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>... which passed 3 parameters to spFruit which only accepts 1 parameter. Anyone with ideas on how I can tackle this?