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bonminh lam wrote:
> Hello,
>
> since Oracle 9i, it is possible to use associativ array (or index by
> table) as in the following example taken from Oracle's PL/SQL User's
> Guide:
>
<snipped>
>
> My question is how to traverse or loop through for example the table
> variable country_population. Since the first und last predicate
> returns a varchar2 value, the syntax like this "for i in foo.first ..
> foo.last loop" does not work.
>
> I guess associative array is not designed to be used this way, but it
> would still be a nice-to-have thing.
>
> Anyone knows a solution?
>
> Bon-Minh Lam
http://www.psoug.org/reference/associative_arrays.html
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