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Thread: How do I Insert a tab char in the sqlplus output

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    Hi everyone,

    I am creating a simple output from sqlplus running a select and spooling it to a file. If I want the columns to be delimitted by a tabchar, how would I do that? I do not want to do 'select col1 || ' ' || col2 || from tablename'.

    I want to be able to use a variable name in place of ' '.

    How do I define it?

    Thanks in advance.

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    select a_col||chr(10)|b_col from your_table;

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    There's a missing pipe (bar) on the second concatenator.

    select a_col||chr(10)|b_col from your_table;

    But chr(10) is for a new line.

    [Edited by stecal on 06-14-2002 at 03:14 PM]

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    This is just typo. Sure should be:

    select a_col || chr(9) || b_col from your_table;


    -----------------------------------------------------------
    SQL> select 'abc' || chr(9) || 'def' from dual;

    'ABC'||
    -------
    abc def


    [Edited by Shestakov on 06-14-2002 at 03:17 PM]

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