Problems Generating DDL

Has anyone else encountered problems when generating DDL Files for export?
I am using a hosted version of Application Express: Application Express 4.0.2.00.07 at this time and when I go to Generate a DDL file for export, it creates the file, but I am finding that it does not format the file correctly.
Is anyone else experiencing this?
Below is an example of what happens: (It seems that it does not do a carriage return between the ; at the end of a create statement and the CREATE that begins the next statement) <b> ;CREATE TABLE </b>
CREATE TABLE "ANALYST"
   (    "ANALYSTID" NUMBER,
    "LASTNAME" VARCHAR2(30),
    "FIRSTNAME" VARCHAR2(30),
    "EMAIL" VARCHAR2(100),
    "WORKPHONE" VARCHAR2(25),
    "CELLPHONE" VARCHAR2(25),
    "ONCALLSTATUS" VARCHAR2(25),
    "ALTEMAIL" VARCHAR2(100),
    "ALTMESSAGING" VARCHAR2(100),
    "MESSAGING_TYPE" VARCHAR2(15),
    "TEXT_CONTACT" VARCHAR2(50),
     CONSTRAINT "ANALYST_PK" PRIMARY KEY ("ANALYSTID") ENABLE
   ) ;CREATE TABLE "APPLICATION_LOV"
   (    "APP_DISPLAY_VAL" VARCHAR2(255),
    "APP_RETURN_VAL" VARCHAR2(255),
    "PARENT_LOV" VARCHAR2(30),
    "APP_LOV_GROUP" VARCHAR2(30),
    "MSGID" NUMBER
   ) ;CREATE TABLE "RCCA_MAIN" It also seems to break on altering tables as well.
;ALTER TABLE "CORRECTIVE_ACTION" ADD CONSTRAINT "CORRECTIVE_ACTION_CON" FOREIGN KEY ("RCCAID")
      REFERENCES "RCCA_MAIN" ("RCCAID") ON DELETE CASCADE ENABLE;ALTER TABLE "INC_NOTES" ADD CONSTRAINT "INC_NOTES_CON" FOREIGN KEY ("INCIDENT_ID")
      REFERENCES "INCIDENT_DETAILS" ("INCIDENTID") ON DELETE CASCADE ENABLE;ALTER TABLE "PBM_LOB_SUBCATEGORY" ADD CONSTRAINT "PBM_LOB_SUBCATEGORY_CON" FOREIGN KEY ("LOB_NAME")
      REFERENCES "PBM_LOB" ("LOB_NAME") ON DELETE CASCADE ENABLE;CREATE UNIQUE INDEX "ANALYST_PK" ON "ANALYST" ("ANALYSTID") So I am just seeing if this is a bug in this version of the application or if there is something I might be doing wrong when I generate the DDL for output to a script file.
To fix it, I open the file and add the add a carriage return between each CREATE statement and ALTER TABLE statement. This can be quite cumbersome if you have a large amount of tables involved in the application. It does work, but I just don't believe that to be the required action to port an application for export.
Thanks for any feedback
Wally

Wally
You don't need to access to your instance with SQL Developer. You can copy/paste the generated DDL code into the SQL Developer (downloand and install http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/developer-tools/sql-developer/overview/index.html), and use it for formatting the code.
Btw, yes generated DDL code has no carriage returns between create table codes (I tested)
Regards
Gokhan

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