Error in Oracle like clause

[Preethinj Math]

Hi,

Need help!

Here the like clause is not working,since the sql is itself in sinle quotes.
I don't know how to make the like clause work.
The error it is giving me is:

ORA-00920: invalid relational operator
ORA-06512: at "TABCOUNT", line 10
ORA-06512: at line 2


The code is
CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION tabcount (
tab IN VARCHAR2, field IN VARCHAR2 ,whr IN VARCHAR2)

RETURN INTEGER
IS
retval INTEGER;
BEGIN
DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE ('whr' ||whr);
DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE ('field1' ||field);
EXECUTE IMMEDIATE
' SELECT COUNT(*) FROM ' || tab ||
' WHERE ' || field || 'like ''%'||whr ||'%'''
INTO retval;
DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE ('countis!' ||retVal);

RETURN retval;
END tabcount;
/

Looking for some answer.

Thanks

[Shital Supase]

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Hello preethinj,

the bug in ur query is the statement whatever u have written as || 'like ''%'||whr ||'%'''

should b

|| ' like ''%'||whr ||'%'''

u have skipped the blank space between the field values & like keyword