RE: sqlplus help

I'm not sure why it's doing that but I just tried removing the NUMBER datatype (and let it default to CHAR) and it seemed to work fine.

ACCEPT MS PROMPT 'Enter the MS >'

The new value made the comparison just fine and worked without problem on my test dataset.

Hope that helps,
Karen

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Ravindra
Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2003 5:47 PM
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ACCEPT MS NUMBER PROMPT 'Enter the MS >' Enter the MS >2163836567

select col1,col2...from
where ms=&ms

old 2: WHERE MS = &MM
new 2: WHERE MS = 2.4e5

when we enter the number as 2163836567 it gets changed to decimal number in the new value and the query fails.
this is happening in the sqlplus client 8.1.5 but works fine on sqlplus 8.1.7 client

no environment variables have been set.how to get this solved

thanks

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