ORA-06502: PL/SQL: numeric or value error: character to number conversion e

Question

Hi,
when I do same thing in my procedure it throws below error but it works fine as annonymus block.
ORA-06502: PL/SQL: numeric or value error: character to number conversion error
CREATE TABLE test_table
(memberid NUMBER,
trans_date date);
DECLARE
v_num number(10,0);
v_text varchar2(100);
begin
v_text := '123456abcdef';
v_num := substr(v_text,1,5);
INSERT INTO test_table
(memberid,
trans_DATE)
VALUES
(v_num,
sysdate);
end;Thanks
Sandhya

Answer 1

Works fine as a procedure as well;
SQL> DECLARE
  2  v_num number(10,0);
  3  v_text varchar2(100);
  4  begin
  5  v_text := '123456abcdef';
  6  v_num := substr(v_text,1,5);
  7  INSERT INTO test_table
  8  (memberid,
  9  trans_DATE)
10  VALUES
11  (v_num,
12  sysdate);
13  end;
14 
15  /
PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.
SQL> select * from test_table;
  MEMBERID TRANS_DAT
     12345 20-MAY-10
SQL> create or replace procedure ins_test_table as
  2 
  3    v_num number(10,0);
  4  v_text varchar2(100);
  5  begin
  6  v_text := '123456abcdef';
  7  v_num := substr(v_text,1,5);
  8  INSERT INTO test_table
  9  (memberid,
10  trans_DATE)
11  VALUES
12  (v_num,
13  sysdate);
14 
15  end ins_test_table;
16  /
Procedure created.
SQL>
SQL> exec ins_test_table;
PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.
SQL> select * from test_table;
  MEMBERID TRANS_DAT
     12345 20-MAY-10
     12345 20-MAY-10