Gyula,
I understand, that you want to apply DECODE function to some local variables
in your pl/sql block (and not to some columns in some table).
The trick is: you can always run DECODE() against 'dual' table:
select DECODE(base_expr, compare1, value1, compare2, value2,... default )
into local_variable_out from dual;
In this case 'base_expr' does not have to reference any column in any table.
Igor Neyman, OCP DBA
Perceptron, Inc.
(734)414-4627
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> Hi Gurus !
>
>
> Is there any function that can be used in PL/SQL and just works the way
as
> DECODE does in Sql?
>
> Thanks in Advance
>
> Gyula
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