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Basant wrote:
> Hi,
> I want to change the field name of a recordtype dynamically to
> compare two values. For Example.
>
> TYPE Rec IS RECORD (name VARCHAR2(300),
> Roll NUMBER);
> Student Rec;
>
> FUNCTION isEqual (l_Student Rec,
> ColumnName VARCHAR2,
> Value VARCHAR2)
> BEGIN
> IF 'l_Student'||Columnname = Value THEN
> RETURN TRUE;
> ELSE
> RETURN FALSE;
> END IF;
> END;
>
> Calling funciton as :
> l_Student Rec;
> BEGIN
> l_Student.Name:='JOHN';
> isEqual(l_student,'.Name','JOHN');
> END;
>
> I have already tried with Dynamic SQL . But didn't got any option to
> do like this.
>
>
> Help me out...
>
> Thanks in Advance.
> Basant
Help you out with what? You provided no version or edition information and no error message or indication of what is wrong.
But the first thing I'd do is:
SELECT keyword FROM v$reserved_words
WHERE keyword LIKE 'NA%';
SELECT keyword FROM v$reserved_words
WHERE keyword LIKE 'RO%';
-- Daniel Morgan http://www.outreach.washington.edu/ext/certificates/oad/oad_crs.asp http://www.outreach.washington.edu/ext/certificates/aoa/aoa_crs.asp damorgan_at_x.washington.edu (replace 'x' with a 'u' to reply)Received on Fri Feb 20 2004 - 11:57:27 CST
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