Kellyn Pedersen wrote,on my timestamp of 29/12/2010 2:10 AM:
Yes and then some... considering the technical level of many who will be attending, do you really want them playing around with regular expressions?? I was referring to ones who might use MSWord, Text editors and Excel spreadsheets to create SQL that could be easily generated inside SQL Plus. When I picture these folks, I would never consider just throwing them into the deep end of the pool with RE's and say, "Swim!" :)
If there is one thing that drives me nuts with that mob - and the Toad/sqldeveloper one as well - it's the blank lines in between a single SQL statement: guaranteed to screw up a long script when run from SQL*Plus...
I now run a vim macro through every script originating from that stable! -- Cheers Nuno Souto in sunny Sydney, Australia dbvision@xxxxxxxxxxxx -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l
