Problem with Cursor-Please help!

[Quoted] I am having a weird problem with an SQL I am trying to use as a cursor. Here is the SQL:

[Quoted] select * from group_at_ruat t1
 where nvl(trunc(update_date),trunc(sysdate))>

       decode((select trunc(upd_date)
                      from process_track
                    where upper(ltrim(rtrim(table_name)))='GROUP'
                        and id=t1.quest_group),null,trunc(sysdate))

The problem is that this runs fine if I run it from the SQL prompt and returns me data, but if I put it as a cursor, I get the following error messages:

PLS-00103: Encountered the symbol "SELECT" when expecting one of the following:
( - + mod not null others <an identifier>
<a double-quoted delimited-identifier> <a bind variable> avg
count current exists max min prior sql stddev sum variance execute forall time timestamp interval date
<a string literal with character set specification>
<a number> <a single-quoted SQL string>

PLS-00103: Encountered the symbol "," when expecting one of the following: ;

The SELECT mentioned in the above error message is the select in the 3rd line of my SQL statement. The second error message refers to the first "," [Quoted] in the last line. I've been trying to fix this for the last couple of days, [Quoted] but couldn't do it. Can anyone point me to where am doing this wrong?

Thanks for your help.

-Raj Received on Wed Jan 02 2002 - 17:29:37 CET