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Statement

 Goal

Given a SQL file, you must:
- remove the INSERT statements that are actually inserting data in the database
- keep the INSERT statements that are embedded in functions.
- All others statements must remains the same

SQL syntax to consider:
- INSERT statement is a statement that starts with the INSERT keyword and ends with the semicolon ;. It can be written anywhere in the SQL file, it can be written on one or many lines. There is no constraint on where INSERT keyword appears first. It can start a new line or after spaces or it may have some indentation before the INSERT keyword
- comments begin with -- and comments must be kept in the script. Comments end at the EOL.
- the syntax used to denote the body of functions:
  BEGIN start of body
END end of body
BEGIN and END keywords are always at the start of a line.


Body is the main part of the function where SQL statements must be checked. If INSERT statements are written in this part, INSERT statements must be kept.
- INSERT, BEGIN and END are keywords, keywords are case-insensitive

EXAMPLES:
- Example of INSERT statement that must be removed:
  INSERT INTO ref_metric 
VALUES (767, 'make it clear', 'some description', 2, 'LOW');

=> VALUES are hardcoded values or string literals

- Example of INSERT statement that must be kept:
  CREATE FUNCTION my_function(pObj integer, pUser integer) 
LANGUAGE plpgsql
AS $$
declare
begin
INSERT INTO lk_table(nb_object, id_user, stat)
VALUES ( pObj, pUser);
end;

=> VALUES are variables, INSERT is embedded in the body of a function. The body is defined by BEGIN and END keywords.


TIP:
- You can copy/paste input file on some sql beautifier tools online to help you to identify relevant lines to remove.
- SQL statements are real statements that can be executed in SQL tools.
Input
Line 1: An integer n for the number of lines to read
Next n lines: SQL statements to parse
Output
m lines: SQL statements cleaned up without INSERT statements that are doing data insertion in the database. comments must remain in the output. m is the number of lines that remain.
Constraints
Example
Input
8
CREATE TABLE vendeur (
    id character integer NOT NULL,
    date_creation timestamp without time zone,
    name text,
    id_createur character varying(32),
    amount double precision,
);
insert into vendeur(id,date_creation, name, id_createur, amount) values(1,'12/08/2020','John',1,100);
Output
CREATE TABLE vendeur (
    id character integer NOT NULL,
    date_creation timestamp without time zone,
    name text,
    id_createur character varying(32),
    amount double precision,
);

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