How to create inline function inside a test script

Question

i ahve a test script. i want to create a inline function that will do some stuff. how can i do it syntatically.
declare
  -- Local variables here
  i integer;
begin
  -- Test statements here
  -- have a function spec and body how?
end;

Answer 1

Hi,
You can define a function in the DECLARE section and use it in the BEGIN section, like this:
declare
  -- Local variables here
  i integer;
     -- Defining successor function
     FUNCTION successor (in_num  IN NUMBER)
     RETURN      NUMBER
     IS
     BEGIN
          RETURN     in_num + 1;
     END     successor;
begin
     dbms_output.put_line ( successor (1) || ' = successor (1)');
end;
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