PL/SQL Printing Cursor Elements - oracle

Question

I tried several ways and looked lots of codes, but I couldn't do it. I have 2 tables
Declare
v_ay varchar2(32);
cursor c_clone_time is
select beko_user_ref
from user_role;
begin
open c_clone_time;
fetch c_clone_time into v_ay
WHILE c_clone_time%FOUND LOOP
dbms_output.put_line (v_ay);
end while;
end;
I'm just trying to print the cursor values, but it is always failing. Can anyone help me ?

Answer 1

There are several spots(syntactical, semantical, and logical errors) in your code needed attention:
Minor one. The fetch c_clone_time into v_ay statement not terminated by semicolon ;.
You end while as any other loop statement with end loop; clause, not end while or end for as you might think.
To be able to print the contents of the cursor and successfully get out of the loop, you need to fetch from that cursor inside the loop as well, otherwise you are stuck with a never-ending loop:
Having said that your code might look look this:
declare
v_ay varchar2(32);
cursor c_clone_time is
select beko_user_ref
from user_role;
begin
open c_clone_time;
fetch c_clone_time into v_ay;
while c_clone_time%found loop
dbms_output.put_line (v_ay);
fetch c_clone_time into v_ay;
end loop;
end;
Test case:
create table user_role(
beko_user_ref varchar2(100)
);
insert into user_role(beko_user_ref)
select dbms_random.string('l', 7)
from dual
connect by level <= 7;
commit;
Print the cursor:
set serveroutput on;
clear screen;
declare
v_ay varchar2(32);
cursor c_clone_time is
select beko_user_ref
from user_role;
begin
open c_clone_time;
fetch c_clone_time into v_ay;
while c_clone_time%found loop
dbms_output.put_line (v_ay);
fetch c_clone_time into v_ay;
end loop;
end;
Result:
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