Report output not coming correctly

Question

Hi All,
my query is like
select 'gggohpoopiokoljmkjjg@@@@@' record from dual;
where record string's length is more than 2000 characters.
I am using oracle report for this purpose as i have some other validations associated with it.
i am printing the report output in a flat file.i want ALL THE OUTPUT SHOULD COME IN ONE LINE.
but this is not happenning so...for the string lengths more than 1000 it's coming in diff line.
How can i make sure that my output file WILL BE IN SINGLE LINE.
i tried in unix vi editor i can give 3000 charecters but it doesn't go to the second line.
any help on this issue will be helpful
thanks in advance

Answer 1

If there's no easy way to do it, you may use a "special character", like chr(xx), as your long line delimiter to chop a line into a couple of lines. Then you write a very simple C program to post-process the report output file to remove these "special character".
If all characters are possible in your report file, you may use a string as the delimiter.