HELP!! - Need PL/SQL to write to a flat file!!

Question

I'm trying to query information about a customer's salesrep, and append the results to a flat file. I'm a beginner, and the following pseudocode is the best I have so far. Any advice would be much appreciated.
Thanks in advance!!
Paul
CREATE OR REPLACE PROCEDURE paul IS
file_handle utl_file.file_type;
mgrname CHAR;
mgrphone CHAR;
mgrext CHAR;
BEGIN
utl_file.open('C:\WINNT\Profiles\pking\Desktop\outputfile.txt','w');
SELECT
name
,attribute7
,attribute8
INTO
mgrname
,mgrphone
,mgrext
FROM
ra_salesreps_all
rem WHERE
rem X-X-X-X-X
rem
rem EXCEPTION
rem WHEN no_data_found THEN
rem NULL;
utl_file.putf(file_handle, mgrname, mgrphone, mgrext);
utl_file.fclose(file_handle);
END paul;
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Answer 1

Below is a simple one....
Procedure WRITE2FILE
id_h in integer,
matter in varchar2 default null
IS
v_FileHandle utl_file.file_type;
root_dir varchar2(200);
file_h varchar2(100);
BEGIN
file_h := 'msg_'| |id_h| |'.txt'; -- you can give dynamic file name
root_dir := 'unix_or_nt/home/file_dir';
v_FileHandle := utl_file.fopen(root_dir,file_h,'w');
if matter is not null then
utl_file.put_line(v_FileHandle,'Additional Information');
utl_file.put_line(v_FileHandle,'------------------------------------------------------------------');
utl_file.put(v_FileHandle,matter);
utl_file.new_line(v_FileHandle,1);
utl_file.put_line(v_FileHandle,'------------------------------------------------------------------');
else
utl_file.put(v_FileHandle,matter);
end if;
utl_file.fflush(v_FileHandle);
utl_file.fclose_all();
exception
when utl_file.invalid_path then
DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE('Invalid path:');
when utl_file.invalid_mode then
DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE('invalid_mode');
when utl_file.invalid_filehandle then
DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE('invalid_filehandle');
when utl_file.invalid_operation then
DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE('Invalid_operation. ');
DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE('The File is not available.');
when utl_file.read_error then
DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE('read_error');
when utl_file.write_error then
DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE('write_error');
when utl_file.internal_error then
DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE('internal_error');
when others then
DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE(4, 'A problem was encountered while writing the document.');
end ;
Calling procedure>>>>>>>>>
execute write2file(100,'Prints the matter in here.');
will result in a file with name msg_100.txt and the contents of the file will be...
Additional Information
Prints the matter in here.
1)Make sure the directory has write permissions
2)Initialization parameter UTL_FILE = 'unix_or_nt/home/file_dir' on database server. If not, then put this in init.ora (ask your DBA) and restart the db.
3)check the syntax for the '/' and '\' depending on your OS
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