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Home > Forums > Programmers > DBMS Packages > Oracle: Oracle release - 9i and earlier Forum

Attempting to write to a file

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eyetry (Programmer)
14 Aug 08 9:41
trying to figure out how to write a procedure that will write output to a file.  Ran this in sqlplus but it errors...

declare
    f utl_file.file_type;
    s varchar2(50) := 'this is a test record';
begin
    f := utl_file.fopen('EXAMPLEDATA','c:\example1.txt','W');
    utl_file.put_line(f,s);
    utl_file.fclose(f);
end;


What am I doing wrong?
 
Dagon (MIS)
14 Aug 08 10:54
You're probably making the common error of trying to create a file on your PC's C drive.   UTL_FILE doesn't work that way.  It writes to a file on the server where the database resides.
eyetry (Programmer)
14 Aug 08 11:13
in the example below is 'EXAMPLEDATA' then the target path on the DB server?  

declare
    f utl_file.file_type;
    s varchar2(50) := 'this is a test record';
begin
    f := utl_file.fopen('EXAMPLEDATA','example1.txt','W');
    utl_file.put_line(f,s);
    utl_file.fclose(f);
end;
Dagon (MIS)
14 Aug 08 11:28
That's correct.  You'll have to be able to log on to the DB server to look at it.
eyetry (Programmer)
14 Aug 08 16:01
resolved used

SELECT GET_UTL_FILE_DIR_FNC INTO L_UTL_FILE_DIR from dual;

declare
    f utl_file.file_type;
    s varchar2(50) := 'this is a test record';
begin
    f := utl_file.fopen(L_UTL_FILE_DIR,'example1.txt','W');
    utl_file.put_line(f,s);
    utl_file.fclose(f);
end;  
 
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