Re: Function to do This?

But I would still need to program each function. Correct?

Stan.

Vitaliy Mogilevskiy wrote:

> DelphiDev wrote:
>
> >
> > Some examples of calls:
> > LookUp('JOBS','VP','JOBDESC'); --Returns "Vice President"
> > LookUp('CITIES','CA'+'SF','ZIPCODE') --Returns ZipCode for S.F. CA
> > (Note, CITIES primary key is "STATECODE+CITYCODE");
>
> Oracle allows you to overload functions and procedures in packages,
> you can use that to develop set of functions which share same name but
> take different parameters and Oracle will figure out which function to use
> based on the parameters you pass to the <PACKAGE>.<FUNCTION_NAME>
>
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