Re: spooling comma delimited file from sql where data does not wrap

http://asktom.oracle.com/tkyte/flat/

not via sqlplus, but exactly what you probably want

On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 6:27 AM, Rick Ricky <ricks12345_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> I am running a query to dump some rows and I made the rows comma delimited
> like this
> select col1||','||col2||','|| ....
> from table
> I set lines 5000.
> I want to spool it so the spool file does not wrap. This way I can load the
> data into excel. The data keeps wrapping and when i import it, I get it
> wrapped in excel. its alot of columns. lines 5000 should be sufficient. I
> just don't have enough screen space for it all.

-- 
Regards,

Greg Rahn
http://structureddata.org
--
http://www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l