Re: ESQL/C and EXECUTE PROCEDURE

That depends on whether your output will return more than one row. If only one row is being returned, then you shouldn't need to declare a cursor. You should just be able to do an EXECUTE p_exe INTO desc USING $var, as I stated. I should have cleared that up. Sorry. - Thomas J. Girsch Database Systems Manager Arch Communications Group, Inc. Jonathan Leffler wrote in message <68r9au$6mi@cssun.mathcs.emory.edu>... >Sorry to rain on the parade, but... > >The question asked about 'input and output parameters'. > >Thomas' answer is absolutely correct for input parameters; it does not >take into account the output parameters. > >AFAIK, if there are output parameters (return values would be a more >precise term; Informix does not have output parameters in the way that >Oracle does), then you have to use a cursor