Question: I am currently trying to populate a cursor in the procedure.

like that :

```
Function notImportantFunction
   variable nothing(20);
   Cursor notImportantCursor Is select...;
   Cursor THEcursor;
begin
    open notImportantCursor;
    open THEcursor;
    LOOP
        FETCH notImportantCursor variable;
    EXIT WHEN notImportantCursor%NOTFOUND;
        THEcursor is select ...; //trying to populate THEcursor
    end loop;
    close THEcursor;
    close notImportantCursor;
end;

```

i've used weird name for my variable just to show the only important one here is THEcursor.

is what i'm trying even possible? or, how would I be able to do the same in another way.

thank you in advance

Answer: 
I think what you are asking for is "Can I create a cursor based on a query that I don't have to define when I declare the cursor"
If thats what you want, then look here for information about dynamic sql.

[Dynamic SQL](http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B10501_01/appdev.920/a96590/adg09dyn.htm)

There is a perfect example in the section Referencing Database Objects that Do Not Exist at Compilation.
You can recreate the cursor each time, however you want.  

If you need something a little more flexible, like creating a cursor that holds three values in each record and you want to populate those values in different ways, you could look for pipelined table functions
I'm not quite sure what you're trying to do - populate a cursor? A cursor is based on a query, so how do you plan to populate that? Maybe you want to populate a table based on a cursor? You can do that by accumulating the cursor results into a collection then using a bulk-insert to populate the table.