These delimiters may span as many lines as needed. An example is shown here:
declare /* This code is written by java2s.com. Dec 20 2007 */ ... begin ... end;
24.1.Introduction | ||||
24.1.1. | Writing a simple program | |||
24.1.2. | Each complete line of the PL/SQL code must end with a semicolon (;). | |||
24.1.3. | Anonymous Block Structure | |||
24.1.4. | An example of an anonymous block. | |||
24.1.5. | Anonymous blocks can be nested in the procedure and exception blocks in as many levels as you want | |||
24.1.6. | The Lexical Set of Elements | |||
24.1.7. | Delimiters | |||
24.1.8. | Comments | |||
24.1.9. | Multi-line comments start with /* and end with */. | |||
24.1.10. | Declaring variables | |||
24.1.11. | Declaring a Variable by Reference | |||
24.1.12. | There are some restrictions on the declaration of variables: | |||
24.1.13. | Assigning values to variables | |||
24.1.14. | Assign SQL query results to PL/SQL variables | |||
24.1.15. | Literals as variable values | |||
24.1.16. | Examples of Integer and Real Literals | |||
24.1.17. | Numeric literals cannot contain dollar signs or commas, but they can be written in scientific notation | |||
24.1.18. | Character and string literals in the Oracle world are enclosed by single quotes |