How do you specify IN clause in a dynamic query using a variable?

Question

In PL/SQL, you can specify the values for the IN operator using concatenation:

v_sql := \'select field1
from table1
where field2 in (\' || v_list || \')\';
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Answer 1

Unfortunately you cannot bind a list like this, however you can use a table function. Read this

Here's an example of usage based on your code:

declare

cursor c_get_csv_as_tables is
select in_list(food_list) food_list
from emp_food
where emp_type = 'PERM';

cursor c_get_food_list (v_food_table varchar2Table)is
select column_value food
from TABLE(v_food_table);

begin
    for i in c_get_csv_as_tables loop
        for j in c_get_food_list(i.food_list) loop
            dbms_output.put_line(j.food);
        end loop;
    end loop;
end;

I used here a column_value pseudocolumn