Re: PL\SQL package creation
Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 07:23:20 -0400
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"Zvika Glickman" <zglickman_at_il.bphx.com> wrote in message
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| gelewyc_at_nyct.com (george lewycky) wrote in message
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| > You need to create the PACKAGE before the PACKAGE BODY
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| > George
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| > "Mark C. Stock" <mcstockX_at_Xenquery .com> wrote in message
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| > > "DCP" <vaagh_at_hotmail.com> wrote in message
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| > > | Hi,
| > > |
| > > | I have following code:
| > > | (seems very simple but tricky)
| > > |
| > > |
| > > | 1-- create or replace package testNameConcate
| > > | 2-- is
| > > | 3-- function disp(Name varchar)
| > > | 4-- return varchar;
| > > | 5-- end testNameConcate;
| > > | 6-- /
| > > | 7-- create or replace package body testNameConcate
| > > | 8-- is
| > > | 9-- function disp(Name varchar)
| > > | 10-- return varchar
| > > | 11-- is
| > > | 12-- nm varchar(25);
| > > | 13-- begin
| > > | 14-- nm='Hello ' || Name;
| > > | 15-- return nm;
| > > | 16-- end testNameConcate;
| > > | /
| > > |
| > > | As u see "/" is need at line 6 other wise it gives me an error
| > > |
| > > | PLS-00103: Encountered the symbol "CREATE" at line 7
| > > |
| > > | but sill this code is giving me a same error, and now it has problem
with
| > > | "/" and error is
| > > |
| > > | PLS-00103: Encountered the symbol "/" at line 6
| > > |
| > > | What am i missing here?
| > > |
| > > |
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| > > code is fine -- it's probably the way you're running it. i would
assume that
| > > you've got all this code in the SQL buffer and then attempt to execute
it as
| > > if it is a single SQL statement -- it's actually two SQL statements,
so you
| > > need to save it to a named script file (not the default afiedt.buf
that gets
| > > created when you do a plain EDIT in SQL*Plus) and then use '_at_filename'
or
| > > 'start filename' to execute the script
| > >
| > > also: user varchar2 instead of varchar -- oracle's been saying the
following
| > > since v7 or v6:
| > >
| > > "VARCHAR Datatype
| > > "The VARCHAR datatype is currently synonymous with the VARCHAR2
datatype.
| > > Oracle recommends that you use VARCHAR2 rather than VARCHAR. In future
| > > releases, VARCHAR might be defined as a separate datatype used for
| > > variable-length
| > > character strings compared with different comparison semantics."
| > >
| > > ++ mcs
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| 1. The / must be at first column.
| 2. There are other errors in the package body. Attached a fixed code:
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| create or replace package testNameConcate
| is
| function disp(Name varchar)
| return varchar;
| end testNameConcate;
| /
| create or replace package body testNameConcate
| is
| function disp(Name varchar)
| return varchar
| is
| nm varchar(25);
| begin
| nm:='Hello ' || Name;
| return nm;
| end;
| end testNameConcate;
| /
good catch -- i stopped at compiling the package spec and didn't even look at the body -- sorry my response was incomplete
++ mcs Received on Thu Sep 23 2004 - 13:23:20 CEST