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Extending HCL OneDB™Beyond standard relational database objects, HCL OneDB™ can be extended to handle specialized data types, access methods, routines, and other objects. Informix® includes many built-in extensions that are fully integrated in the database server. Informix® also provides DataBlade® modules, which are packages of extended database objects for a particular purpose and that are installed separately from the database server. Alternatively, you can create your own user-defined objects for Informix®.
HCL OneDB™ extensions and DataBlade® modulesThese topics describe how to use built-in database extensions and separately installed DataBlade® modules.
Database Extensions User's GuideThis publication explains how to use the database extensions that come with HCL OneDB™: Large Object Locator, MQ messaging, binary data types, basic text search, node data type, and SQL packages.The HCL® OneDB® Database Extensions User's Guide explains how to use the database extensions that come with HCL OneDB™: Large Object Locator, MQ messaging, binary data types, basic text search, node data type, HCL OneDB™ web feature service for Geospatial Data, and SQL packages.
SQL Packages ExtensionThe SQL packages extension provides SPL routines that you can use in an application that is compatible with database servers other than HCL OneDB™.
UTL_FILE packageThe UTL_FILE package provides a set of routines for reading from and writing to files on the database server file system.
GET_LINE procedureThe GET_LINE procedure gets a line of text from a specified file. The line of text does not include the end-of-line terminator. When there are no more lines to read, the procedure throws a NO_DATA_FOUND exception.

GET_LINE procedure

The GET_LINE procedure gets a line of text from a specified file. The line of text does not include the end-of-line terminator. When there are no more lines to read, the procedure throws a NO_DATA_FOUND exception.

Syntax

UTL_FILE.GET_LINE(file, buffer)

Procedure parameters

file: An input argument of type UTL_FILE.FILE_TYPE that contains the file handle of the opened file.
buffer: An output argument of type VARCHAR(32672) that contains a line of text from the file.