SUBSTR function working only in SQL developper?

Hello,
I type the following query based on what I am learning in terms of Single-row Functions and it seems to work in SQL developer but for some reason not in SQL Plus ? Can anyone tell me where i am going wrong?
Select Job_title,
SUBSTR(Job_title, 1, 10)
SUBSTR(Job_Title, 11)
from jobs;
This is just to test the function's abilities and to see what it does but I was wondering as to why it doesn't work on the SQL plus prompt. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you

Vlakarmis wrote:
Hello,
I type the following query based on what I am learning in terms of Single-row Functions and it seems to work in SQL developer but for some reason not in SQL Plus ? Can anyone tell me where i am going wrong?
Select Job_title,
SUBSTR(Job_title, 1, 10)
SUBSTR(Job_Title, 11)
from jobs;
This is just to test the function's abilities and to see what it does but I was wondering as to why it doesn't work on the SQL plus prompt. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you"Doesn't work" is not an actionable error message.
Please use copy and paste - copy your entire sqlplus session - full sqlstatement and full response, and post back here. If it returns many rows, we don't need to see all of them, just a representative sample.

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