PL/SQL: how do i prompt user input in a procedure?

Question

This is a question about a small part of a large project I\'m doing. I tried the following but I just get the two errors below it:

SET SERVEROUTPUT ON

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Answer 1

You cannot directly receive messages from the client in a PL/SQL procedure or package.

The best you can do to emulate this is to interface with table data, and have users insert data into the table and react to that, or use Advanced Queueing (which amounts to pretty much the same thing).

Alternatively, accept the user input as parameters when the procedure is called.