PL/SQL Escape Characters?

Question

I've built a procedure that displays a list using htp's. The procedure contains a call to this function:
FUNCTION "GET_JOBNAME"(p_jobid in varchar2)
RETURN VARCHAR2
AS
p_jname varchar2(100);
BEGIN
select job_title into p_jname from jobs where job_id = p_jobid ;
RETURN(p_jname);
END;
I cannot get this function to work correctly. I think it is primarily because p_jobid is a varchar and therefore should have single quotes around itself in the query. However if I put single quotes around p_jobid like this:
select job_title into p_jname from jobs where job_id = 'p_jobid' ;
Then the query will search for a job_id equal to p_jobid not what is actualy inside the variable. Is there any kind of escape character that will allow JDev to ignore the single quotes and send them to the query properly?
Thanks.
Joshua

Answer 1

Actually, it looks about right. Can you run this function directly from JDeveloper to test it? Right-click on the function and choose run, then supply a value for p_jobid, for example:
P_JOBID := 'AD_VP';
You should then see the result in the Log window. If this works, it points to the way the function is called as the problem, rather than the function itself.
Any error messages or more information/code about how you are calling the function would be helpful.
-- Brian