Define inner function to calculate age : Nested Functions « Function Procedure Packages « Oracle PL/SQL Tutorial






SQL> set serveroutput on
SQL> set echo on
SQL> declare
  2    age   binary_integer;
  3
  4    birth_date    date;
  5    current_date  date;
  6
  7    function age_as_of (birth_date in date, as_of_date in date) return positive is
  8        as_of_year  natural;    --a year of 00 is valid.
  9        as_of_month positive;
 10        as_of_day   positive;
 11
 12        birth_year    natural;  --a year of 00 is valid.
 13        birth_month   positive;
 14        birth_day     positive;
 15
 16      age   positive;
 17    begin
 18        as_of_year := to_number(to_char(as_of_date,'yyyy'));
 19        as_of_month := to_number(to_char(as_of_date,'mm'));
 20        as_of_day := to_number(to_char(as_of_date,'dd'));
 21
 22        birth_year := to_number(to_char(birth_date,'yyyy'));
 23        birth_month := to_number(to_char(birth_date,'mm'));
 24        birth_day := to_number(to_char(birth_date,'dd'));
 25
 26        if as_of_month > birth_month then
 27           age := as_of_year - birth_year;
 28        elsif (as_of_month = birth_month) and (as_of_day >= birth_day) then
 29           age := as_of_year - birth_year;
 30        else
 31           age := as_of_year - birth_year - 1;
 32        end if;
 33
 34        return age;
 35    end;
 36  begin
 37
 38    current_date := to_date('11-13-1997','mm-dd-yyyy');
 39    birth_date   := to_date('11-15-1961','mm-dd-yyyy');
 40
 41
 42    age := age_as_of (birth_date, current_date);
 43    dbms_output.put_line(age);
 44
 45  end;
 46  /
35

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27.2.Nested Functions
27.2.1.Nested function in anonymous block
27.2.2.Define inner function to calculate age