How to Access Cursor Columns Without FETCH .. INTO

I'm using SQL Server to build stored procedures, and I'm using cursors to loop through a select statement

I'm defining the cursor as follow:

DECLARE @c_col1 varchar(max);
DECLARE @c_col2 varchar(max);

DECLARE c as CURSOR FOR 
SELECT col1, col2 
FROM table;

OPEN c;
FETCH NEXT FROM c INTO
@c_col1, @c_col2;

SELECT @c_col1, @c_col2;

Is there a way to access the columns of the cursor without a need to declare variables for each column and to use INTO in FETCH clause? In other words, is it possible to use:

DECLARE c as CURSOR FOR 
SELECT col1, col2 
FROM table;

OPEN c;
FETCH NEXT FROM c; 

SELECT c.col1, c.col2;

From stackoverflow

• No, you have to do it that way if you want to store the values from the cursor in local variables instead of returning them back to the client.

  KM : from the OP's code, they are returning the values as a 1 row reslt set of two columns

• if this is your entire porcedure (right from OP question):

  DECLARE @c_col1 varchar(max);
  DECLARE @c_col2 varchar(max);
  
  DECLARE c as CURSOR FOR 
  SELECT col1, col2 
  FROM table;
  
  OPEN c;
  FETCH NEXT FROM c INTO
  @c_col1, @c_col2;
  
  SELECT @c_col1, @c_col2;
  

  then you can just do the following to return a result set of the two columns, no cursor necessary:

  SELECT top 1 col1, col2 
  FROM table;