How to Create a Procedure/Function to Return more than one value

Question

How I can write a function/Procedure to which one value is passed and it will return nine values. How I can use these values

Answer 1

Syed,
I would use PL_SQL table versus a VARRAY for this purpose as you will have an advantage of joining PL_SQL table if you want to in your SQL statements in the procedure.
1. At the SQL prompt, create a type using,
   create or replace type myTable as table of VARCHAR2(100);
2. Pass the table to your procedure as IN OUT parameter,
Create or replace procedure
myProc(pvar1 IN Number, passingArray IN OUT myTable) AS
Begin
    --Fill the array with your logic
    for i in 1..9
    loop
        passingArray.extend;
        passingArray(passingArray.count) := 'what ever';
    end loop; 
End;
3. From your Main prog, you call  Myproc
   --declare a variable for type first
   passingArray myTable := myTable();
   begin
   myProc(10, passingArray());
   --At this point, You would be able to Join the PL_SQL table
   --which gives you the power of using SQL with PL_SQL tables
   end; -- end of main program
4. All done!I have not shown how to use PL_SQL tables in SELECT statements, as that is not the subject here.
At the end of the story, I would say, if you know the number of arguments that you are going to pass to a procedure, Simply use "that many" IN OUT parameters to finish your task(9 in your case). Although the proc call looks large with this, it is much simpler. The above approach is VERY helpful if YOU DO NOT KNOW THE NUMBER OF ARGUMENTS that you are sending AND receiving From a procedure.
Thx,
SriDHAR