Hello Peter,

> I'm new to FB, hope someone can answer this probably stupid question:
>
> In a stored procedure, I want is to assign the result of a SELECT
> statement to a variable - but can't make it work. I try something like
>
> return_var = select LNAME from WORKERS where WORKERS.ID
> = :proc_parameter;

select lname
from workers
where ...
into :return_var

> return_var is of the same type as LNAME - varchar(20)
> The select statement itself is correct and works OK in other cases, and
> is guaranteed to return 0 or 1 matches.
> What's the correct way to do this?

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