Spooling generates more records...why [message #373084] |
Mon, 26 March 2001 16:56 |
Dave
Messages: 92 Registered: August 1999
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Hi,
I am spooling a table to a flat file. One of the columns is a long field (i.e. varchar2(20000)).
The problem is that if there are any newline characters in the field, spooling generates a new record in the flat file. Example output is below.
Instaed of generating:
"1000034 | 01/01/01 | This is a good time of day"
This is what is actually generated:
"1000034 | 01/01/01 | This is a good
| | of day"
The "|" is the record seperator.
Is there any way of making the spool command ignore newline characters?
Any help would be appriciated.
Thanks
Dave
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