User Prompts in SQL

Hello everybody,
I am trying to run a SELECT statement where I would like to use an input box to enter in the name of a customer in my database. However, when it runs, I just get a 'no data found' error.
Here is my code:
SELECT firstname, lastname
FROM customers
WHERE lastname = UPPER('&Custval');
So I have tried also using the ':' in instead of the character '&' but same result comes up.
Please let me know what I am doing wrong.
I am using the Oracle Application Express for this code.
Any advice would be great!
Thanks!

Hi,
Welcome to the forum!
Substitution variables (starting with &) work in SQL*Plus and some similar front ends. I don't think they work in Apex.
I'm sure Apex has a way to set bind variables (starting with : ).
Close this thread, and open one in the Apex forum
Oracle Application Express (APEX)
This is the SQL and PL/SQL forum. Neither SQL nor PL/SQL has any way of getting input that the user types at run-time; that's done by the front end, which in your case is Apex.

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