All, Since my pl/sql is less than stellar, well, way less than that; i was hoping to get some direction on how to pass an array of records back to the calling application? i have initialized a record type, have been able to write and read from it within the pl/sql package but just cant figure out how to pass it out of the package. I have been able to pass an array out as a varchar and clob, but cant get the array to distinguish end of record. Yes I'm a novice ;-) Here is a snippet of what i have done; CREATE OR REPLACE PACKAGE BODY pkg_rpt AS PROCEDURE PR_RTN_DETAIL(in_s1 IN varchar2,-- start date in_e1 IN varchar2,-- end date in_s2 IN varchar2,-- start date + release_time/24 in_e2 IN varchar2,-- end date + release_time/24 in_acct IN varchar2, in_subacct IN varchar2, out_array OUT ?) -- /* Cursors to retrieve records for record type to pass back to application */ . . . -- /* create record type */ -- TYPE rpt_detail_type IS RECORD (PHN table.phone%TYPE, FIRST table.first%TYPE, ACCT table.acct%TYPE, TRANID table.transaction%TYPE, DT date, STATUS varchar2(1 BYTE), INTCODE0 table.intcode0%TYPE, ID table.id%type); v_br rpt_detail_type; -- . . . -- /* populate records here */ Thanks All! As usual your expertise is much appreciated! -- Bryan S Wells DBA VoiceLog Email: bunjibry@xxxxxxxxx