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loading hard returns in text fields [message #373390]

Fri, 13 April 2001 11:26

Paula
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Registered: April 2001

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I have a text field in my database and am loading data from a csv file. The text field has several lines of data and I would like to separate them by hard returns. I thought that using the | character would do this but it's insterting this character in the field. I swore I had done this before but it just isn't working. Any help would be appreciated.

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Re: loading hard returns in text fields [message #373392 is a reply to message #373390]

Fri, 13 April 2001 12:14

Andrew again...
Messages: 270
Registered: July 2000

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chr(10) is a new line character.

select 'hello'||chr(10)||'world' from dual;

insert into tab values(line1||char(10)||line2);

insert into tab values
('first line
second line');

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