RE: sqlplus question

>
> 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 "|"

Sounds to me like the trimspool should do it...

Are you sure its set on

ME_at_DB1 -> trimspool on
SP2-0734: unknown command beginning "trimspool ..." - rest of line ignored.

Try set trims on

Or

Set trimspool on

bob

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