Re: Oracle spool formatting fields "wrong"

i've never gotten that error.
Those are _supposed_ to be sql comments. I'll remove them and see what happens.

Michel Cadot wrote:
> <mr.jawright_at_gmail.com> a écrit dans le message de news: 1166198943.108769.284550@79g2000cws.googlegroups.com...
> |I am trying to fix a spool of the results of a query into a text file.
> | On one of my databases this works as expected, but on another the
> | formatting is not correct.
> |
> | I am including a section of the output, but the problem may be hard to
> | see.
> | The first seven columns (120 bytes) are formatted correctly, but every
> | field after the first seven is on a new line.
> | Does anyone have an idea what would cause this?
> |
> | thanks
> |
>
> SQL> column "ASN_Count" format a6 heading 'x' -- 0 to 10000
> SP2-0158: unknown COLUMN option "--"
>
> The column statement starting with the heighth are not taken
> by SQL*Plus.
>
> Regards
> Michel Cadot
Received on Fri Dec 15 2006 - 18:38:05 CET