00900 Invalid SQL Statement error

Question

I'm teaching myself to write stored procedures, working in TOAD 10.5 with Oracle 10g. I keep getting error ORA-00900: invalid SQL Statement. Here's the code, cut down to bare minimum sample size. I can't see where I'm doing anything wrong.
If I cut out the cursor (taking it down to just "Begin" and "End"), it does run, but I can't see anything wrong with the cursor.
Any ideas?
CREATE OR REPLACE PROCEDURE IN_PROCESS_CASES_BOS
IS
V_HELLO VARCHAR2(10);
CURSOR C_MAIN IS
SELECT 'HELLO' FROM DUAL;
BEGIN
OPEN C_MAIN;
LOOP
FETCH C_MAIN INTO V_HELLO;
EXIT WHEN C_MAIN%NOTFOUND;
END LOOP;
CLOSE C_MAIN;
END;
END IN_PROCESS_CASES_BOS;
/

Answer 1

Hi,
You've got 2 END statements, but only 1 BEGIN.
It helps a lot if you indent your code, so that every END is right below its correspoding BEGIN, and all the code in between them is indented. The same goes for IF and LOOP statements.
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Try this:CREATE OR REPLACE PROCEDURE IN_PROCESS_CASES_BOS
IS
V_HELLO VARCHAR2(10);
CURSOR C_MAIN IS
SELECT 'HELLO' FROM DUAL;
BEGIN
OPEN C_MAIN;
LOOP
     FETCH C_MAIN INTO V_HELLO;
     EXIT WHEN C_MAIN%NOTFOUND;
END LOOP;
CLOSE C_MAIN;
END;                Lose this line
END IN_PROCESS_CASES_BOS;