RE: sqlplus question

From: Fink, Dan <Dan.Fink_at_mdx.com>
Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2002 07:58:37 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.004D3D3D.20020919075837@fatcity.com>

The only method I know of is to concatenate the fields together in one column. If there is a way to have variable sized SQL*Plus column formatting, I'd love to see it...seriously...it would be cool.

Until then...

  1 select substr(ename,1,length(rtrim(ename))), job   2* from emp
SQL> /

SMITH     |CLERK
ALLEN     |SALESMAN
WARD      |SALESMAN
JONES     |MANAGER
MARTIN    |SALESMAN

SQL> edit
Wrote file afiedt.buf

  1 select substr(ename,1,length(rtrim(ename)))||'|'||job   2* from emp
SQL> / SMITH|CLERK
ALLEN|SALESMAN
WARD|SALESMAN
JONES|MANAGER
MARTIN|SALESMAN -----Original Message-----
Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2002 8:51 AM To: Fink, Dan; ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com

I don't want just 4. It's variable length and I want the actual number of valid bytes.

Bill Carle
AT&T
Database Administrator
816-995-3922
wcarle_at_att.com
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