How to pass a litral string into cursor variable?

Question

Hi All
I have a code like below:
I need to select the following table,column with the criteria as such but it looks like the literal string does not work for cursor variable.
I can run the SQL in sqlplus but how I can embed that in PL/SQL code??
-Thanks so much for the help
cursor ccol2(Y1 varchar2) is select table_name,column_name from user_tab_columns
where table_name like 'HPP2TT%' and table_name like '%Y1'
and column_name not in ('MEMBERID');

Answer 1

Literal strings are fine in a cursor, however, your logic is likely wrong, and you are not using the Y1 parameter to the cursor correctly. If you are looking for tables that either start with HPP2TT or end with Y1 (whatever you pass as Y1), then you need something more like:
cursor ccol2(Y1 varchar2) is
select table_name, column_name
from user_tab_columns
where (table_name like 'HPP2TT%' or
       table_name like '%'||Y1) and
      column_name not in ('MEMBERID');In the unlikely event that you are lookig for table that actually do start with HPP2TT and end in whatever is passed in Y1 then your query could be simplified to:
cursor ccol2(Y1 varchar2) is
select table_name, column_name
from user_tab_columns
where table_name like 'HPP2TT%'||Y1 and
      column_name not in ('MEMBERID');Note in both cases, a single member in-list is bad practice, although Oracle will transform it to an equality predicate instead.
John