Creating Fixed Length from Database Records

Hello Folks,
I need to take records from a table and write a fixed length
text file. What is the general procedure for doing this? Any
special packages I need?
TIA.
Alex Wolff.

The mechanisms for creating the text file are either to spool a query result from SQL*Plus or to use the UTL_FILE package to write from a PL/SQL procedure.
To write fixed length records you would do well to convert every column to text. A sample select clause might be ...
select to_char(my_number,'99999990.000')||
to_char(my_date,'DD-MM-YYYY')||
rpad(my_text,30) as fixed_output
from ...
I hope this covers your question.

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For example another input I can expect is
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I need to display as
Exam:ElementaryScience
Nature: Accessment2
Date:23-Feb-13
Time:1500-1730
Venue:RegentHall
Student ID
Score
E323443
90
E212354
87
A234435
64
G234432
46
Exam:17
Nature:11
Date:9
Time:9
Venue:10
Student ID:7 (anything after 56 is a loop)
Score:2
Unfortunately the input stream is not in XML format. What sort of string function/config driven logic can I use to allow me to define a 1 config fits all mechanism?

Are there any java string function that I can use together with some form of config driven configuration that anyone can suggest?
Well there is the obvious one: the 'substr' method of the String class.
http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/lang/String.html
Your 'config' would be the list of start/end or start/length values for each of the components.
The usual parsing issue is knowing how to determine when one element ends and the next one starts. For this fragment of yours:
12245tv
How do you know if the first component, 'ch_code', is '1', '2', or '122'?

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