Working with oracle types

Question

i created a function which is creating a type
below is the fields of the type
IF substr(v_NewLine,1,1) = 'D' then -- Checking for record
     PIPE ROW(phys_gds_obj(substr(v_NewLine,2,12),
               substr(v_NewLine,13,31), -- Cc1
          substr(v_NewLine,32,36), -- Pri
          substr(v_NewLine,37,41), -- Sec
          substr(v_NewLine,42,45), -- RPC
          substr(v_NewLine,46,49), -- Fee
          substr(v_NewLine,50,53), -- Pri
          substr(v_NewLine,54,57), -- Cat
          substr(v_NewLine,58,61), -- Cat
          substr(v_NewLine,62,65), -- Cat
          substr(v_NewLine,66,66), -- Goo
          substr(v_NewLine,67,67), -- Ter
          substr(v_NewLine,68,70)));
and the records for which i am creating the type is like this
D013984113824266514200134055 00287000000322 0181 Y
D013984150675415072000005634 01800000000282 0162 Y
when i execute the function it is telling the below error
ORA-06502: PL/SQL: numeric or value error: number precision too large
what i have to do
whether i have to use some nvl functions like that
suggestions welcome

Answer 1

what i have to doThe clue is in the error message....
SQL> declare
  2     n number(2);
  3  begin
  4     n := 99;
  5  end;
  6  /
PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.
SQL> declare
  2     n number(2);
  3  begin
  4      n := 999;
  5  end;
  6  /
declare
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-06502: PL/SQL: numeric or value error: number precision too large
ORA-06512: at line 4
SQL> Cheers, APC
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