Cursors in Oracle 10g XE stored procedures

Question

I want to use a cursor in a stored procedure. I saw many examples on the net but none of them seem to work in Oracle 10g Express Edition.
I am new to Oracle and any solution relevant to Oracle 10g XE is highly appreciated.
Yosief Kesete

Answer 1

Dear user!
Simple error. Try that:
CREATE OR REPLACE PROCEDURE "employeesgetlist
  p_FIRST_NAME IN VARCHAR2,
  returnValue OUT SYS_REFCURSOR
IS
  p_EMPLOYEE_ID NUMBER;
  CURSOR C1 IS
  SELECT employee_id
  FROM employees
  WHERE first_name = p_FIRST_NAME;
BEGIN
  BEGIN
    -- OPEN A PREVIOUSLY DECLARED CURSOR
    OPEN C1;
    LOOP
      FETCH C1 INTO p_EMPLOYEE_ID;
      EXIT WHEN C1%NOTFOUND;
    END LOOP;
     -- CLOSE THE CURSOR
    CLOSE C1;
  END;
  OPEN returnValue FOR
  SELECT * FROM employees
  WHERE employee_id = p_EMPLOYEE_ID;
END;
{code}
Yours sincerely
Florian W.