Question about changing code progammatically

Question

In our code base there are many pkgs, procedures, and functions that have an email in the exception block. This email needs to be removed/updated.
Can these objects be updated in a loop? Would you use execute immediate to re-compile? Would a cursor be used to determine from all_source which objects needed to be updated?
Has anyone done this before or do we need to re-compile each, one at a time?

Answer 1

Something like that could work:
begin
   for c in
      (select object_name,
              replace (dbms_metadata.get_ddl (object_type, object_name),
                       '[email protected]',
                       '[email protected]'
                      ) stmt
         from user_objects
        where object_type in ('PROCEDURE', 'PACKAGE', 'FUNCTION', 'TRIGGER')
          and dbms_metadata.get_ddl (object_type, object_name) like
                                                         '%[email protected]%')
   loop
      execute immediate cast (c.stmt as long);
   end loop;
end;