Showing posts with label display long string in Oracle. Show all posts
Showing posts with label display long string in Oracle. Show all posts

Sunday, August 24, 2014

Oracle Character Return in a String

If a string is too long to display, we can put character returns using "chr(10)" as shown below. As you can see, we can format the long string better. When we generate a long message such as an email from PL/SQL, chr(0) is very helpful.

SQL> select 'hello world!' as message from dual;

MESSAGE
------------
hello world!

SQL> select 'hello'||chr(10)||'world!' as message from dual;

MESSAGE
------------
hello
world!