How to pass table type variable into function from SQL*PLUS ?

Question

How to pass a table type variable from sql*plus prompt into a function ?
Thanx in advance.

Answer 1

Krishna,
Do you mean like this?SQL> DECLARE
  2      TYPE t_tbl IS TABLE OF VARCHAR2(20);
  3      l_sample_tbl           t_tbl;
  4
  5      FUNCTION print_contents ( p_tbl IN t_tbl )
  6      RETURN VARCHAR2
  7      IS
  8          l_string            VARCHAR2(1000);
  9      BEGIN
10          FOR i IN 1..p_tbl.COUNT LOOP
11              IF (i = 1) THEN
12                  l_string := p_tbl(i);
13              ELSE
14                  l_string := l_string || ', ' || p_tbl(i);
15              END IF;
16          END LOOP;
17          RETURN (l_string);
18      END print_contents;
19
20  BEGIN
21      l_sample_tbl := t_tbl();
22      l_sample_tbl.EXTEND;
23      l_sample_tbl(1) := 'one';
24      l_sample_tbl.EXTEND;
25      l_sample_tbl(2) := 'two';
26      l_sample_tbl.EXTEND;
27      l_sample_tbl(3) := 'three';
28      l_sample_tbl.EXTEND;
29      l_sample_tbl(4) := 'four';
30      l_sample_tbl.EXTEND;
31      l_sample_tbl(5) := 'five';
32      DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE(print_contents(l_sample_tbl));
33  END;
34  /
one, two, three, four, five
PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.
SQL> HTH,
T.