title: pl sql error PLS-00103
body: <p>I have a table(customer) and is has attributes of c_Id, fname, lname, age</p>
  
  <p>the table is populated with the following values</p>
  
  <pre><code> 1|Ann|Smiths|23
   2|Chris|Gates|21
   3|Janes|Jobs|24
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I am very new to pl/sql and I wrote a simple select statement </p>
  
  <pre><code>DECLEAR
       name varchar2(50);
  BEGIN
       SELECT fname into name
       FROM customer
       WHERE fname= 'Ann';
  END;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>When I execute the script my from my textfile(doselect) on sqlplus using the following command</p>
  
  <pre><code> EXECUTE doselect
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>however it gives me the following error</p>
  
  <pre><code>ERROR at line 1:
  ORA-06550: line 1, column 8:  
  PLS-00103: Encountered the symbol ":" when expecting one of the following: 
  := . ( @ % ; 
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Please help.</p>