RE: Sqlplus Auto-trim Whitespace???

From: Yexley Robert D Contr Det 1 AFRL/WSI <Robert.Yexley_at_wpafb.af.mil>
Date: Fri, 05 Apr 2002 11:58:26 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.0043D6F1.20020405115826@fatcity.com>

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Sent: Friday, April 05, 2002 2:37 PM
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Hi,

A co-worker of mine is trying to remember how to have trailing whitespace automatically removed from each COLUMN in the output of a query within SQL*Plus. He said he saw the tip in a book a couple years ago and can't remember for the life of him how he went about it. I have poured through the docs myself and other references and can't seem to find a way to do this.

The objective is to set the COLSEP to say '|' and then be able to perform something like a SELECT * FROM <table> such that the output/display is variable length for each column.

The solution we're looking for is purely within SQL*Plus, not doing something with PL/SQL. Also, the solution should not involve using the COLUMN command to control the formatting of each column literally.

Anyone know how to do this? Does anyone remember the tip and possibly the name of the book?

Thanks again!
-w

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