How to create a table inside of a procedure in Oracle?

Question

I want to create a table inside of a procedure. I tried to put the create query in a string then execute immediate the string. For example:

create or replace procedure hr.temp is
   var1 varchar2(4000);
begin
   var1:='create table hr.temp(
          id number)';
   execute immediate var1;
end temp;

But when I execute this procedure I get the error:

ORA-00911: invalid character
ORA-06512: at "SYS.TEMP", line 6
.
.
.

Is there any way I can do this?

Answer 1

Try this. It should work...

create or replace procedure hr.temp is
   var1 varchar2(4000);
BEGIN
   var1:='create table hr.temp2(
          id number)';
   EXECUTE IMMEDIATE var1;
end temp;

Answer 2

the answer of m.r 'a_horse_with_no_name' is right. The first point is I should not create a table in sys schema.

The second point is in a dynamic sql I should not use ; character in dynamic sql.