Hi Folks
I have been using the Perl DBI to access and return data
from an Oracle database using PL/SQL packages and procedures.

By using param_inout (e.g. bind_param_inout(6,\$result,252);)
I can return the data from the database.
But how do I return data from a PL/SQL function? If the function
takes in 4 parameters and returns a number, do I use 5 binded
variables and the 5th variable is the returned number (does
not seem to work)
or is there another way?? Thanks for any help in advance
Ant

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