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Subject: pro-cobol types problems
Date: Fri, 23 Jul 1999 16:16:31 +0200
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I want to feed varchar2-columns of a table with host variables. I tried PIC
X(n) VARYING hosts variables but got this error :
ORA-01458: invalid lenght inside variable character string

Is there any termination-character to set or whatever ?...
thanks for help.