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

CREAT         


        

Answer 1

This piece of code works only in SQL*Plus and can't be used to produce a stored procedure!!!

DECLARE
variable1 NUMBER(1);
variable2 CHAR(1);

BEGIN
DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE('Hello World');
variable1 := &please_enter_1_or_0;
variable2 := '&please_enter_y_or_n';
END;

Mind the difference in the last statement where the last substitution variable is quoted in a string to be properly accepted by the PL/SQL syntax. Anyway, as I told you in the last comment to your question this is not a user interaction but just the result of a statement preprocessing. Every time you input different values the RDBMS executes a different source code.

Probably your requirement to use a "procedure" doesn't meant to use a STORED procedure(that is impossible to do so), but they just intended a SQL*Plus script, ask for clarifications.