UTL_FILE help..Plz Help urgently

Question

CREATE OR REPLACE PROCEDURE test_file
AS
n_output_file_handle UTL_FILE.file_type;
/**************************Beginning of the procedure **********************/
BEGIN
--DBMS_OUTPUT.ENABLE(2000000);
DBMS_OUTPUT.put_line('p_utl_dir:');
DBMS_OUTPUT.put_line('c_output_file_name:'|| 'test.txt' );
n_output_file_handle := UTL_FILE.fopen ('C:\MPPI','test.txt','w');
UTL_FILE.put_line (n_output_file_handle, 'test1');
UTL_FILE.fclose(n_output_file_handle);
I have this procedure to write text to a file. I execute this on my own machine but it does not write to the file.I exceute it from SQLPlus by execute test_file();.It says proc successfully completed but nothing is written to text file.
Could somone plz help me with this urgently.

Answer 1

Hi, what is the value for the parameter UTL_FILE?
You use an absolute path for the directory to write to in you r procedure.
If you would use a directory object in the database to specify where to write to you would not need to set UL_FILE parameter.
Regards,
Lutz