oracle 00215,PLS-00215: String length constraints must be in range (1 .. 32767)

Your varchar2 variables have to be sized, I'm guessing the correct sizes here...

IN parameters are passed by reference (so behind the scenes it's a pointer to the value), so don't need a size - hence why p_ean13_without_checkdigit doesn't need to be sized.  Variables are instances, so the PL/SQL engine needs to know how much memory to set aside.  Hence why variables with a size element (char, varchar2 etc.) have to be size.

function ean13_with_checkdigit(p_ean13_without_checkdigit in varchar2) return varchar2 as

checksum_digit varchar2(1);

ean13          varchar2(13);

l_sum          number;

l_multiple     number;

begin

for i in 1 .. 12

loop

if MOD(i, 2) = 0 then

l_multiple := 3;

else

l_multiple := 1;

end if;

l_sum  :=  NVL(l_sum, 0) + SUBSTR(p_ean13_without_checkdigit, i, 1) * l_multiple;

end loop;

checksum_digit := TO_CHAR(10 - MOD(l_sum, 10), 'FM0');

ean13          := p_ean13_without_checkdigit || checksum_digit;

return ean13;

end;