Solution to “cannot perform a DML operation inside a query”?

Question

I am using a Data Analysis tool and the requirement I have was to accept a value from the user, pass that as a parameter and store it in a table. Pretty straighforward so I

Answer 1

Just execute the function in a dummy if ... end if; statement to ignore the return value:

exec if supercomplex('somevalue') then null; end if;

Or execute it as a parameter for put_line procedure to output the return value:

exec dbms_ouput ('result of supercomplex='||supercomplex('somevalue'));

result of supercomplex=done