Quite table delete from SQL*PLUS

From: GIMME <gimme_this_gimme_that_at_yahoo.com>
Date: 1 Nov 2004 17:28:12 -0800
Message-ID: <3f12b4fb.0411011728.2cc07917_at_posting.google.com>

[Quoted] Is there a way to to a quite delete and supress the error message if a table already exists? I'm deleting about 50 tables and something which uses a select count(*) would clutter things up.

Thanks

drop table vmapping

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ERROR at line 1:
ORA-00942: table or view does not exist Received on Tue Nov 02 2004 - 02:28:12 CET