Picking up Parameters in a Stored Procedure

Question

Hi,
Using the following sqlplus call I am executing a sql script.
sqlplus username/password @test.sql "TEST1" "TEST2"
The test.sql script makes the following call:
execute TABLEOWNER.TEST_SP;
Can anyone tell me how to pass parameters shown in the sqlplus call to the execute command so that they are available to the stored procedure?
And then how do I pick those two parameter values up in the stored procedure?
I have a procedure created using the following syntax, but when I try to create the procedure using this syntax I get prompted for a value for 1, and then for 2, the procedure then creates without any errors but when I check the definition for the procedure I can see that rather then the &1 and &2 parameters, they have been replaced with whatever I enter for 1 and 2 when the procedure was created.
CREATE OR REPLACE PROCEDURE TEST_SP AS
--Declare and initialise variable passed from shell script
lvBATCH_ID VARCHAR2(10) := '&1';
lvCREATED_DATE VARCHAR2(6) := '&2';
Thanks.

Answer 1

The procedure will just be passed parameters as normal. It doesn't care what calls it:
CREATE OR REPLACE PROCEDURE test_sp
    ( p1 VARCHAR2, p2 VARCHAR2 )
AS
BEGIN
    DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE(p2 || ', ' || p1);
END test_sp;Your SQL*Plus script would contain something like:
exec test_sp('&1','&2')(the single quotes being required for character literals in this example - you wouldn't need them for numeric values)
You would call the SQL*Plus script as
@test_script World Hello