Do the cursor need to be closed?

Question

for rec in mycursor loop
          dbms_output.put_line(i);
     end loop;
do 'mycursor' need to be closed?

Answer 1

SQL> set serveroutput on size 1000000
SQL> declare
  2     cursor mycursor is
  3        select object_name i
  4          from all_objects
  5         where rownum < 3;
  6  begin
  7    for rec in mycursor
  8    loop
  9       dbms_output.put_line(rec.i);
10    end loop;
11    dbms_output.put_line('now we will try and close the closed cursor');
12    close mycursor;
13  end;
14  /
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now we will try and close the closed cursor
declare
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-01001: invalid cursor
ORA-06512: at line 12
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