Prompts for returning report

Question

SQL*Plus
What techniques are there for prompting the user in inputting a primary key that will be used to produce a report based on one table?
For example the table is:
CUSTOMER(customer_id, name, address)
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Arlas

Answer 1

This doesn't seem to work.
ACCEPT customer_id CHAR PROMPT 'Enter Customer ID > '
select      c.customer_id, a.account_id, ca.account_type, o.order_id
from     customer c, account a, customer_account ca, customer_order co, order o
where     a.account_id  =  c.account_id
and     c.customer_id = ca.customer_id
and     c.customer_id = co.customer_id
and     co.order_id   = o.order_id
and     c.customer_id = '&customer_id';It returns:
old   8:  and c.customer_id = '&customer_id'
new   8:  and c.customer_id = ''
no rows selectedIt seems as if the ACCEPT statement is of o use because it skips past the prompt and uses no value.
I tried something else. I tried to first give the ACCEPT statment separately and game a customer ID, then i input the select statement and now it seems to work. Unfortunately it seems need to do it this way although i need to give 2 inputs for just one report.
Ideas?
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Arlas