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The EXTEND method increases the size of a collection. There are three variations of the EXTEND method. The first variation appends a single NULL element to a collection; the syntax for the first variation is:

<collection>.EXTEND

collection is the name of a collection.

The following example demonstrates using the EXTEND method to append a single, null element to a collection:

DECLARE
    TYPE sparse_arr_typ IS TABLE OF NUMBER;
    sparse_arr      sparse_arr_typ := sparse_arr_typ(-100,-10,0,10,100);
    v_results       VARCHAR2(50);
BEGIN
    DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE('COUNT: ' || sparse_arr.COUNT);
    sparse_arr.EXTEND;
    DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE('COUNT: ' || sparse_arr.COUNT);
    FOR i IN sparse_arr.FIRST .. sparse_arr.LAST LOOP
        IF sparse_arr(i) IS NULL THEN
            v_results := v_results || 'NULL ';
        ELSE
            v_results := v_results || sparse_arr(i) || ' ';
        END IF;
    END LOOP;
    DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE('Results: ' || v_results);
END;

COUNT: 5
COUNT: 6
Results: -100 -10 0 10 100 NULL

COUNT indicates that before the EXTEND method, there were 5 elements in the collection; after the EXTEND method was invoked, the collection contains 6 elements.

The second variation of the EXTEND method appends a specified number of elements to the end of a collection.

<collection>.EXTEND(<count>)

collection is the name of a collection.

count is the number of null elements added to the end of the collection.

The following example demonstrates using the EXTEND method to append multiple null elements to a collection:

DECLARE
    TYPE sparse_arr_typ IS TABLE OF NUMBER;
    sparse_arr      sparse_arr_typ := sparse_arr_typ(-100,-10,0,10,100);
    v_results       VARCHAR2(50);
BEGIN
    DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE('COUNT: ' || sparse_arr.COUNT);
    sparse_arr.EXTEND(3);
    DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE('COUNT: ' || sparse_arr.COUNT);
    FOR i IN sparse_arr.FIRST .. sparse_arr.LAST LOOP
        IF sparse_arr(i) IS NULL THEN
            v_results := v_results || 'NULL ';
        ELSE
            v_results := v_results || sparse_arr(i) || ' ';
        END IF;
    END LOOP;
    DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE('Results: ' || v_results);
END;

COUNT: 5
COUNT: 8
Results: -100 -10 0 10 100 NULL NULL NULL

COUNT indicates that before the EXTEND method, there were 5 elements in the collection; after the EXTEND method was invoked, the collection contains 8 elements.

The third variation of the EXTEND method appends a specified number of copies of a particular element to the end of a collection.

<collection>.EXTEND(<count>, <index_number>)

collection is the name of a collection.

count is the number of elements added to the end of the collection.

index_number is the subscript of the element that is being copied to the collection.

The following example demonstrates using the EXTEND method to append multiple copies of the second element to the collection:

DECLARE
    TYPE sparse_arr_typ IS TABLE OF NUMBER;
    sparse_arr      sparse_arr_typ := sparse_arr_typ(-100,-10,0,10,100);
    v_results       VARCHAR2(50);
BEGIN
    DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE('COUNT: ' || sparse_arr.COUNT);
    sparse_arr.EXTEND(3, 2);
    DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE('COUNT: ' || sparse_arr.COUNT);
    FOR i IN sparse_arr.FIRST .. sparse_arr.LAST LOOP
        IF sparse_arr(i) IS NULL THEN
            v_results := v_results || 'NULL ';
        ELSE
            v_results := v_results || sparse_arr(i) || ' ';
        END IF;
    END LOOP;
    DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE('Results: ' || v_results);
END;

COUNT: 5
COUNT: 8
Results: -100 -10 0 10 100 -10 -10 -10

COUNT indicates that before the EXTEND method, there were 5 elements in the collection; after the EXTEND method was invoked, the collection contains 8 elements.

Note

The EXTEND method cannot be used on a null or empty collection.

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