newline in oracle composed message

helpful person-

I need to compose a messgage from within oracle. When I do this, I get 1 big string back (I use a varchar to return the composed message) no matter how I try to insert newlines.

I have tried the following, all to no avail:

VARCHAR2 myMessage(256);

myMessage := 'asdfsad' || '\n' || 'asdfsad'
myMessage := 'asdfdsa' || '\r\n' || 'asdfsad'
myMessage := 'asdfsadf' || '\014' || 'asdfsa'
myMessage := 'sadfdsa' || '' || 'asdfds'

any ideas on how to do this? My last resort will have to be to insert a marker character in the composition & then write a client side script to replace the marker character with a newline - but this is a hack..


thanks

declare
mymsg varchar2(256);
begin
mymsg := 'this is the first line.';
mymsg := mymsg || chr(10) || 'This is the second line';
dbms_output.put_line(mymsg);
end;

Thanks very much. It works.