RE: Qustion on Select statement

There's a COLSEP setting that might work

SQL> set COLSEP ''

Seems to work for me.

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From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On 
Behalf Of Storey, Robert (DCSO)
Sent: Thursday, December 02, 2010 2:37 PM
To: oracle-l-freelists
Subject: Qustion on Select statement

I've written a query to produce a flat file through the use of the Spool 
command.  Everything works perfectly except for one small detail.

By default, the output of a Select statement has a default colsep of a blank.  
So, my formatting is way off due to a single blank being inserted between each 
of the returned values in my line.

Select rpad(value1,15), rpad(value2,12), rpad(value3,8)
From <table>
Where value1 > 100.

So, what I get is (using a $ for blanks and a * for the field padding).

Value1*********$value2******$value3**

Is there a way or a setting that would disable the separation between values 
returned in a Select?

Thanks, Bob

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