Open more than one File in Forms

Question

Hi,
my Question is if there is a possibility to open more Files(Text-Files) then one File.
That means that if I press my Button in Forms the Program should open all Files in a Folder.
Can I do this with a LOOP.
Example:
LOOP
in_file:=TEXT_IO.FOPEN('c:\test\*.txt','r');
END LOOP;

Answer 1

Yes of course - you'd want to store each file handle in a separate variable though - otherwise how would you reference them to read or write?
You also need to be careful about closing all the files you open as well.
You can use a PL/SQL table array to hold the file handles:
e.g.
Type fileArrayType is Table of TEXT_IO.FILE_TYPE index by binary_integer;
FileArray fileArrayType;