Prompt for user inputs

Hi,
1) Want to prompt user for username & password
2) connect to oracle
3) want to use substring function on username entered by user
3) user of substring output in procedure
Performed as shown below but not working,
PROMPT Enter username and password.
PROMPT
user:=&username;
pass:=&passowrd;
tns:=&tnsname;
conn user/pass@tns
PROMPT
PROMPT
set serveroutput on
DECLARE
variable1;
variable2;
varibale3;
var:=substring(user,1,4);
BEGIN
var.package_name.procedure_name(cur);
FETCH cur INTO variable1,variable2,varibale3;
dbms_output.put_line('XYZ');
END;
Edited by: user640001 on Feb 28, 2012 11:27 PM

trying to run as below but getting error for 'var'
DECLARE
var varchar2(20):=substr('&un',1,4);
variable1 varchar2(20);
cur var.package_name.Cursor;
BEGIN
var.package_name.procedure_name(cur);
FETCH cur INTO variable1;
dbms_output.put_line(variable1);
END;
cur var.package_name.Cursor;
ERROR at line 16:
ORA-06550: line 16, column 7:
PLS-00487: Invalid reference to variable 'VAR'
ORA-06550: line 16, column 7:

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