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Ford Desperado wrote:
> which means I'm getting 'L1' instead of the 'L&L' token that I need.
> Although I already have a workaround, I'm quite curious why would that
> happen
>
& is normally the character used to define a 'substitution variable'. Basically you are telling your environment "se L concatenated with the value found in subs. var 'L'"
This is basic SQLPlus stuff. You might want to spend a bit more time in the SQLPlus Reference manual as there are a whole pile of other useful & time saving features you have likely missed.
/Hans Received on Fri May 21 2004 - 15:04:28 CDT
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