Oracle reports question?

I am trying to output an Oracle report using sqlplus. I want the output to look like e.g. :

ABCD,123,efg,456
ABCDE,234,ghij,7893

What I get is:
ABCD ,123,efg ,456
ABCDE,234,ghij,7893

Note the extra spaces after ABCD and efg. I've tried rtrim, but that doesn't work, because there aren't really any spaces in the database. Any suggestions?
TIA Received on Tue May 19 1998 - 18:10:14 CDT