How to suppress spaces in spool file

Question

Hi,
i want to generate a sqlplus spoolfile, but trim doesn't suppress leading spaces. What do i make wrong?
For example the value in column 4 is 9 not " 9" . It's a char(1) column
SQL> SELECT STICHTAG||';',
2 KONTO_LIEFERID||';',
3 KONTONUMMER||';',
4 TRIM(ARBEITSZIFFER)||';'
5 FROM av_abst_mp_ifrs
6 WHERE stichtag='20081230'
7 AND kontonummer='9851674900'
8 /
20081230; K01; 9851674900; 9;
20081230; K01; 9851674900; 9;
20081230; K01; 9851674900; 9;
20081230; K01; 9851674900; 9;
20081230; K01; 9851674900; 9;
20081230; K01; 9851674900; 9;
20081230; K01; 9851674900; 9;
20081230; K01; 9851674900; 9;

Answer 1

Hi,
The spaces at the output is the spaces for the columns (Not spaces for the column values), you can concat all values at one column, like this...
SQL> SELECT STICHTAG||';'||
2 KONTO_LIEFERID||';'||
3 KONTONUMMER||';'||
4 TRIM(ARBEITSZIFFER)||';'
5 FROM av_abst_mp_ifrs
6 WHERE stichtag='20081230'
7 AND kontonummer='9851674900'
8 /Not Tested.
Other option (without concat all columns) at sqlplus you can use "COLSEP". like this...
sql> SELECT 'DATE', SYSDATE
  2  FROM DUAL;
'DAT SYSDATE
DATE 29/01/09
1 row selected.
sql> SELECT 'DATE'||SYSDATE
  2  FROM DUAL;
'DATE'||SYSD
DATE29/01/09
1 row selected.
-- "OR"
sql> SET COLSEP ''
sql> SELECT 'DATE', SYSDATE
  2  FROM DUAL;
'DATSYSDATE
DATE29/01/09
1 row selected.Edited by: dask99 on Jan 29, 2009 9:14 AM
Added new option.