Exec stored procedure from another stored procedure - not working

Question

Hey, we've got a bunch of .sql files that we run, and some of them are stored procedures. Our programs call the stored procedures from within the .sql files and that works, but we've tried calling a stored procedure from another stored procedure and it won't compile. The syntax looks the same, and we can run that second stored procedure from the SQL*Plus command prompt just fine, so we know it's in there. It doesn't matter whether we type exec or execute in the first stored procedure--it still gives us a compilation error. Here's the relevant bit of the code:
        delete CMHISTORYINDEX;
        commit;
        exec SP_DAILY_TOTAL;
END SP_DAILY_CLOSING;
/Here's where we go into SQL*Plus and try to compile it:
Connected to:
Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition Release 10.1.0.3.0 - Production
With the Partitioning, Real Application Clusters, OLAP and Data Mining options
SQL> @sp_daily_closing.sql
Warning: Procedure created with compilation errors.
SQL> show errors
Errors for PROCEDURE SP_DAILY_CLOSING:
LINE/COL ERROR
34/7     PLS-00103: Encountered the symbol "SP_DAILY_TOTAL" when expecting
         one of the following:
         := . ( @ % ;
         The symbol ":=" was substituted for "SP_DAILY_TOTAL" to continue.
SQL>We've also tried changing SP_DAILY_CLOSING to lowercase, but it doesn't seem to help. As I mentioned before, we can type that same sort of thing in .sql files that are not stored procedures and the exec is compiled fine and runs correctly. What are we doing wrong?

Answer 1

In the stored procedure remove "exec" :
        delete CMHISTORYINDEX;
        commit;
        SP_DAILY_TOTAL;
END SP_DAILY_CLOSING;