Difficulty assigning value in plsql

Question

In a college exercise the following was requested:

In a presidential election there are three candidates. Votes are by code. The data used for screening are codified as follows: 1, 2, 3 = votes for their respective candidates; 4 = invalid vote; 5 = blank vote. Write a program Plsql that calculates and writes: The total votes for each candidate; The total of null votes; The total of blank votes. As finalizer of the set of votes, the value is 0 (zero).

My answer was this:

declare
valorVoto number type:= &voto;
votosDeputado1 number:= 0;
votosDeputado2 number:= 0;
votosDeputado3 number:= 0;
votosNulos number;
votosBrancos number;

begin
if valorVoto = 1 then 
  votosDeputado2:=votosDeputado2 + 1;
end if;

if valorVoto = 2 then 
  votosDeputado2:=votosDeputado2 + 1;
end if;

if valorVoto = 3 then 
  votosDeputado3:=votosDeputado3 + 1;
end if;

if valorVoto = 4  then
  votosNulos := votosNulos+1;
end if;

if valorVoto = 5  then
  votosBrancos := votosbrancos+1;
end if;


  DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE ('O primeiro candidato teve ' || votosDeputado1);
  DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE ('O segundo candidato teve ' || votosDeputado2);
  DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE ('O terceiro candidato teve ' || votosDeputado3);

  DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE ('O total de votos nulos foi ' || votosNulos);
  DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE ('O total de votos em branco foi ' || votosBrancos);

end;

but the only way out is this

ORA-06550: row 2, column 18: PLS-00103: "TYPE" symbol found when one of the following symbols was expected:

:= . ( @ % ; not null range default character The symbol "." was replaced by "TYPE" to continue. 06550. 00000 - "line %s, column %s: n%s" *Cause: Usually a PL/SQL Compilation error. *Action:

Who wants help is welcome : )

Answer 1

Lucas, just remove the type, getting in the way below:

declare
valorVoto number := &voto;
votosDeputado1 number:= 0;
votosDeputado2 number:= 0;
...