Re: Problems with TEXT_IO package

From: Mark Gumbs <mgumbs--AT--hotmail.com>
Date: Mon, 24 May 1999 11:23:24 +0100
Message-ID: <37492662.0_at_145.227.194.253>


TEXT_IO is a developer 2000 product and will not work under SQL*Plus as far as i know, someone may correct me.

Could you use UTL_FILE? Its the server side equivalent of TEXT_IO.

Mark

luca wrote in message <3742A0B6.7DE22AF5_at_uniroma3.it>...
>Hi, I have this problem.
>
>I need to read some data from a file on the client file-system, for
>manipulating and importing them in a server database table.
>I wrote a PL/SQL procedure, and for accessing to the file-system I used
>the TEXT_IO package.
>
>Running the procedure in "SQL*Plus release 3.3.4.0.0" I got an error
>message for every reference to the TEXT_IO package, sounding like this:
>
>PLS-00201 : identifier 'TEXT_IO.GETLINE' must be declared
>
>The same procedure running under the interpreter of Procedure Builder
>rel 2.0 worked fine.
>
>Someone could explain this ?
>
>
Received on Mon May 24 1999 - 12:23:24 CEST

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