ACCEPT in SQL*Plus

I have to write an interactive script within SQL*Plus, so I tried this code:

   declare
   ciao varchar(50);
   begin
   accept ciao;
   dbms_output.put_line(ciao);
   end;
 /

but SQL*Plus seems not to recognize the ACCEPT keyword, although it can be launched from the command line:

SQL> accept ciao

...and, in this case, I don't know how it can be useful.... Can anyone help me?

Thanks in advance. Received on Tue Apr 08 2003 - 04:41:44 CDT