Oracle Stored Procedure "Encountered the symbol... " error - database

After a looong research i have decided i have no idea what causes the following problem! I want to create a stored procedure that will increase the value of a column if that satisfied a statement.I can run the procedure as a anonymous block but i cant run it as a stored procedure!
Here is the stored procedure code:
1 create or replace
2 Procedure RaiseSalary
3 Is
4 Salary number;
5 Cursor RaiseCursor
6 Is
7 Select Salary_A From Person Where Salary_A<400 for update of Salary_A;
8 Begin
9 Open RaiseCursor;
10 Loop
11 Fetch RaiseCursor Into Salary;
12 Exit When RaiseCursor%Notfound;
13 Update Person Set Salary_A=(Salary + 200) Where Current Of RaiseCursor;
14 End Loop;
15 Close RaiseCursor;
16 Commit;
17 End;
I am getting an error at line 3 that says "Encountered the symbol "SALARY" when expecting one of the following:...." and i am getting the same error at line 5 at the "s" letter of the word Cursor ,but at this time it says ";" instead of "Salary". The compiler log shows "insufficient privileges" but i can't find a reasonable explanation for this.
I have tried to run the code as an anonymous block like this:
Declare
Salary number;
Cursor RaiseCursor
Is
Select Salary_A From Person Where Salary_A<400 for update of Salary_A;
Begin
Open RaiseCursor;
Loop
Fetch RaiseCursorInto Salary ;
Exit When RaiseCursor%Notfound;
Update Person Set Salary_A =(Salary + 200) Where Current Of RaiseCursor;
End Loop;
Close RaiseCursor;
Commit;
End;
.
run;
And works great!!!I am sure that i have the privileges to write stored procedures because i have created some successfully!
Am i doing something so wrong? I can't figure out what causes the problem, if you have any suggestions i would really appreciate that:)
EDIT: For some reason my procedure got wrong Schema that's why i had that problem! I only dropped the Procedure and create it again and it fixed!!!!
Thanks for your time anyway!

Let me just point out this would be vastly more efficient if you did it as:
UPDATE Person Set Salary_A=(Salary_A + 200)
Where Salary_A<400
No cursor, no looping. It would also be a lot simpler.

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Wrap your select stament in an exception block and catch the 'no data found' exception, and act accordingly

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