Help With Simple Function

Question

I was wondering if someone could help me out with a simple function I'm trying to create. I'm kind of new to functions in oracle and I don't know the exact syntax or what it expects from me. I would appreciate it if someone could look at this and point out what I'm doing wrong.
CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION freshman_status_term(
pidm IN varchar2
RETURN varchar2 IS term
BEGIN
SELECT sgbstdn_term_code_eff INTO term
FROM sgbstdn
WHERE sgbstdn_pidm = pidm
AND sgbstdn_styp_code = 'F'
AND sgbstdn_stst_code = 'AS'
RETURN term;
END freshman_status_term;
The goal of the function is to find out the term for when a student is listed as a freshman. I keep getting errors though, so something must be wrong with it. Any help is appreciated. Thanks.

Answer 1

Sven W. wrote:
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My code looked exactly like that minus the exception part when I got the error before.Please post the code that you used and the full error message that you got.CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION freshman_status_term(
pidm IN varchar2
RETURN varchar2
IS
term sgbstdn.sgbstdn_term_code_eff%TYPE;
BEGIN
SELECT sgbstdn_term_code_eff INTO term
FROM sgbstdn
WHERE sgbstdn_pidm = pidm
AND sgbstdn_styp_code = 'F'
AND sgbstdn_stst_code = 'AS'
RETURN term;
END freshman_status_term;
SELECT freshman_status_term ('216520') FROM dual;
Error: PLS-00103: Encountered the symbol "SELECT" when expecting one of the following:
( - + ; case mod new not null <an identifier>
The error is highlighted right after the BEGIN statement
Edited by: user10548103 on Nov 6, 2008 8:53 AM