How to call fn form within a procedure? - pl help

Question

Hello
I have a procedure which has a set of statements that is called repeatedly.i would like to put them inside a function, passing an IN parameter as well. How to do that? and how do u call the fn from within the procedure?
Pl help.
rgds

Answer 1

SQL> create or replace package calls is
  2      procedure proc ;
  3  end ;
  4  /
Package created.
SQL> create or replace package body calls is
  2      function func(p_param in number) return number is
  3      begin
  4          dbms_output.put_line('param is:'||p_param) ;
  5          return(p_param * 2) ;
  6      end ;
  7      procedure proc is
  8          ret_val number ;
  9      begin
10          ret_val := func(100) ;
11          dbms_output.put_line('ret_val='||ret_val) ;
12      end ;
13  end ;
14  /
Package body created.
SQL> exec calls.proc ;
param is:100
ret_val=200
PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.
SQL>Message was edited by:
Kamal Kishore