RE: trapping errors from assignment of SQL*Plus Input Variables

Bill, is this an anonymous block you are talking about?

Lisa Koivu
Oracle Diaper Administrator
Fairfield Resorts, Inc.
5259 Coconut Creek Parkway
Ft. Lauderdale, FL, USA 33063

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Magaliff, Bill [SMTP: ]
> Sent: Tuesday, December 10, 2002 11:49 AM
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> Subject: trapping errors from assignment of SQL*Plus Input Variables
>
> Is there any way to trap errors from the assignment of a SQL*Plus variable
> to a PL/SQL variable?
>
> I have this in my executable section:
>
> v_runcr := &&i_runcr;
>
> (v_runcr is declared as a number)
>
> I want to trap the case where either no value for i_runcr is specified at
> runtime (and thus the assignment should be NULL) or a non-numeric
> character
> is specified (e.g., a letter).
>
> I had hoped the WHEN OTHERS exception would handle it but it does not.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks
> bill
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