Trying to get sysdate- 2yrs and sysdate+2yrs value into variable

Question

Hi,
iam Trying to get sysdate- 2yrs and sysdate+2yrs value into variable.But facing the following issue. Please help me out .
Error :
p_start_date := select add_months(max(sysdate), -24) from dual;
ERROR at line 6:
ORA-06550: line 6, column 25:
PLS-00103: Encountered the symbol "SELECT" when expecting one of the following:
( - + case mod new not null <an identifier>
<a double-quoted delimited-identifier> <a bind variable>
continue avg count current exists max min prior sql stddev
sum variance execute forall merge time timestamp interval
date <a string literal with character set specification>
<a number> <a single-quoted SQL string> pipe
<an alternatively-quoted string literal with character set specification>
<an alternat
ORA-06550: line 7, column 3:
PLS-00103: Encountered the symbol "P_END_DATE"
Code
declare
p_start_date date;
p_end_date date;
begin
select add_months(max(sysdate),-24) into p_start_date from dual;
dbms_output.put_line('p_start_date' |p_start_date);
dbms_output.put_line('p_end_date' | p_end_date);
end;

Answer 1

Hi, try:
SQL> declare
  2 
  3  p_start_date date;
  4  p_end_date date;
  5 
  6  begin
  7 
  8  select add_months(sysdate,-24) into p_start_date from dual;
  9  select add_months(sysdate, 24) into p_end_date from dual;
10 
11  dbms_output.put_line('p_start_date: ' ||to_char(p_start_date, 'dd-mm-yyyy hh24:mi:ss'));
12  dbms_output.put_line('p_end_date: '   ||to_char(p_end_date, 'dd-mm-yyyy hh24:mi:ss'));
13  end;
14  /
p_start_date: 14-04-2007 17:41:34
p_end_date: 14-04-2011 17:41:34
PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.