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- From: carl.pedersen@dartmouth.edu (L. Carl Pedersen)
- Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle
- Subject: Re: Trouble with name_in function (re-post)
- Message-ID: <carl.pedersen-140992113703@kip-sn-49.dartmouth.edu>
- Date: 14 Sep 92 15:46:22 GMT
- References: <dewey-110992125749@sebastian.centerline.com>
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- In article <dewey-110992125749@sebastian.centerline.com>,
- dewey@centerline.com (Devan F. Dewey) wrote [in part]:
- > blk := :system.cursor_block;
- > fld := blk || '.explination';
- >
- > >>> explination := name_in(name_in('fld'));
- >
- >
- > I'm trying to put the value stored in the field :hotel.explination into the
- > local variable explination.
- >
- > What am I doing wrong???
-
- Try: explination := name_in(:system.cursor_block||'.explination');
-
- The description of name_in() in the manual is confusing (to me at least).
- If you don't need any indirection, you can go:
-
- explination := :hotel.explination;
-
- > BTW: I've been trying to e-mail this to ORACLE support. Does anyone have an
- > e-mail address for them???
-
- Wouldn't it be nice if they had an email address?
-
- I hope you had a good reason for the spelling of that variable because it's
- exacerbating my neurosis.
-