Error message "SQL Statement ignored" while try to run an Funtion in APEX

Question

Hello All,
In order to creating an application in APEX from CSV format i need to run below funtion.
CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION bcl_custom_auth (
p_username IN VARCHAR2,
p_password IN VARCHAR2)
RETURN BOOLEAN IS
BEGIN
FOR c1 IN (SELECT 1
FROM bcl_employees
WHERE UPPER(userid) = UPPER(p_username)
AND UPPER(last_name) = UPPER(p_password))
LOOP
RETURN TRUE;
END LOOP;
RETURN FALSE;
END;
but i am getting below error message:
Error at line 6: PL/SQL: SQL Statement ignored
4. RETURN BOOLEAN IS
5. BEGIN
6. FOR c1 IN (SELECT 1
7. FROM bcl_employees
8. WHERE UPPER(userid) = UPPER(p_username)
Could some body please check as i am new to PLSQL.
Thanks & regards,
Souvik Ghosh

Answer 1

843873 wrote:
Hello Edstevens,
I did not understand your answer .Could you please elaborate.
Thanks & regards,
Souvik Ghosh
Edited by: 843873 on Jul 8, 2011 11:43 PMNotice that the message had been edited? I changed my mind from my original, shot-from-the-hip, mesage, and simply deleted the entire content. would have preferred to delete the entire message but can't.