Cursor - dynamic select statement?

Question

Hello!
I am passing a string into a function, and my string is a sql select statement. Is it possible to create a cursor using the string that is passed to the function?
Ex:
create or replace function "GETCOUNT"
(sqlstring in VARCHAR2)
return NUMBER
is
rec_count NUMBER; --I eventually want to return a count of the rows returned from my sqlstring
cursor c1 is sqlstring <--this is what I'd like to do...but how?
begin
... -- I haven't gotten to this point yet
end;
The error I get says 'Encountered the symbol "sqlstring" when expecting on of the following: ( select '
Thanks in advance!!

Answer 1

Something like this ->
create or replace procedure gen_cur(str in varchar2,rc in out sys_refcursor)
is
str1 varchar2(500);
begin
str1 := 'select empno,ename,hiredate,sal
from emp
where '||str;
open rc for str1;
exception
when others then
dbms_output.put_line(sqlerrm);
end;
variable b refcursor
declare
src varchar2(300);
begin
src:= 'sal between 2000 and 7000';
gen_cur(src,:b);
exception
when others then
dbms_output.put_line(sqlerrm);
end;
print bRegards.
Satyaki De.