Procedure select 1 and delete - oracle

Question

I am trying to create a procedure that
1. Selects the first record.
2. Deletes the record and returns it to the caller.
I have the following code (mind you I am fairly new to PLSQL).
I got it from looking at other SO questions and the oracle docs.
CREATE PROCEDURE TAKE_1_DELETE_1
AS
BEGIN
DELETE FROM my_table
where rownum = 1
RETURNING *
INTO v_event;
END TAKE_1_DELETE_1;
I get the following error:
[Error] PLS-00103 (7: 3): PLS-00103: Encountered the symbol "end-of-file" when expecting one of the following:
; <an identifier> <a double-quoted delimited-identifier>
current delete exists prior <a single-quoted SQL st
I have tried numerous things, but none have worked thus far.
Our Data-Warehouse people are saying "We don't know what is wrong".
Dear SO gods... what do I need to do, to get my procedure to do what I want? :)

Answer 1

There's a couple of errors here:
You haven't declared v_event so you're trying to return data into a uninstantiated variable/out parameter
You can't "return" * you have to explicitly state all columns - this is the actual error you're getting
Assuming a table that looks like this
create table my_table (a number, b number);
Your procedure would look like the following:
create or replace procedure take_1_delete_1 is
v_event my_table%rowtype;
begin
delete from my_table
where rownum = 1
returning a, b
into v_event;
end take_1_delete_1;
Or, if you wanted to use the returning value outside the procedure you can use an OUT parameter rather than declaring a local variable
create or replace procedure take_1_delete_1 (p_event out my_table%rowtype) is
begin
delete from my_table
where rownum = 1
returning a, b
into p_event;
end take_1_delete_1;