How to get record count using reference cursor in oracle10g

I want to know how we can get record count using reference cursor in oracle10g.

From stackoverflow

• You cannot.

  You can only count the rows while you fetch them from the cursor.

  A cursor is like a stream, and Oracle does not know how much rows are in there until it has read them all (which happens as you fetch rows).

• After you fetched the rows you can use cursorname%rowcount to get the amount of records you fetched.

  lukef : That only returns the number of rows currently fetched, not the number of rows in the entire result set (unless you're at the end of the cursor).

  Thilo : he said: After you fetched the rows ...

  Sanjay Thakur : Thanks donar. cursorname%rowcount works.