Hi,

A co-worker of mine is trying to remember how to have
trailing whitespace automatically removed from each
COLUMN in the output of a query within SQL*Plus. He
said he saw the tip in a book a couple years ago and
can't remember for the life of him how he went about
it. I have poured through the docs myself and other
references and can't seem to find a way to do this.

The objective is to set the COLSEP to say '|' and then
be able to perform something like a SELECT * FROM
<table> such that the output/display is variable
length for each column.

The solution we're looking for is purely within
SQL*Plus, not doing something with PL/SQL. Also, the
solution should not involve using the COLUMN command
to control the formatting of each column literally.

Anyone know how to do this? Does anyone remember the
tip and possibly the name of the book?

Thanks again!
-w

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