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Howdy,
I am spooling my sqlplus output to a file with no headings and all the fields separated by a delimiter. I have a field that is defined as varchar2(56), but typically only 4 or 5 bytes are filled. Oracle recognizes that and if you select length(fld1) from the table, you will get 4. But if I spool this to a file, I always get the full 56 bytes padded with blanks. In other words, I get 4 bytes of data and 52 blanks for that field. I only want the four valid bytes so that my delimiter comes immediately after that 4th byte. My sqlplus options are as follows:
set newpage 0 space 0 linesize 5000 pagesize 0 echo off recsep off feedback off heading off trimspool on colsep "|"
Bill Carle
AT&T
Database Administrator
816-995-3922
wcarle_at_att.com
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