PLSQL and Create Table

Question

Hi
I was wondering whether someone would help me with my first ever piece of PLSQL. I am trying to embed a create table as select statement into a PLSQL loop so that I can create a number of tables automatically. I am unclear as to whether this is possible or not, but my attempts so far has been unsucessful. My code so far is as follows:
declare
l_loops number :=1;
begin
loop
if l_loops > 4 then
exit;
end if;
create table l_loops as select year, month from caadatanum
where month = l_loops;
l_loops := l_loops +1;
end loop;
end;
I am trying to use the loop to change the where condition
as it loops through. The error message I get tells me
that it doesn't expect the create statement so I am quite confused. Any help anyone could give me would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
John

Answer 1

Hi
Firstly can I thanks you all for your help. The code no runs ok apart from one thing. It concerns the labelling of the table itself
so 'create table '||l_loops||' as select ...
errors with invalid table name presumably because it doesn't like giving tables numbers as names. I have tried
'create table '||to_char(l_loops)||' as select .. but to no avail
Is it possible to concatenate the l_loops number with a string somehow to get the statement to work ?
create table mytable||'||l_loops||' doesn't work so I am not really sure what to do.
Once again thanks
John