how to return some default value in oracle cursor when nothing is found

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Published on 2010-06-11T22:55:16Z Indexed on 2010/06/11 23:02 UTC
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I have following statement in one of the oracle SP:

OPEN CUR_NUM FOR 
   SELECT RTRIM(LTRIM(num)) as num 
   FROM USER WHERE USER_ID = v_user_id;

When the above does not return anything the SP result just has no column name in it. But I'd like the cursor to still have num column with some default value like NOTHING when no data is found.

Is this doable ?

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