Semi colon madness

At the end of my quiz, the email opens up fine and the
information is there, but there is a semi-colon added to the end of
my email address for some reason. This brings up a syntax error
message from the email program. My quiz is going to go out to a lot
of non-computer savvy folks. They will not be able to figure out
that they have to delete the semi-colon.
Why does it appear? It is not there in the email field in the
Quiz preferences field of Captivate.
I think I'm going insane.
Thanks

If you think you're experiencing an episode of insanity, you
should seek out professional help immediately.
This forum is only intended for user-to-user support for
Adobe Captivate and is not intended to provide medical advice or
treatment.
Just kidding... welcome to the Captivate community!
It's very odd that the semi-colon is causing a problem. It's
a standard mechanism in e-mail, used primarily to separate names
when an e-mail is addressed to more than one person. Are you sure
the error you're seeing is not due to you having entered an invalid
e-mail address in Captivate, possibly due to a typo?
In testing, I didn't see a semi-colon in the value being
passed to the e-mail program so I suspect the semi-colon is being
added by the browser and/or the e-mail client itself. There may not
be any way to prevent it.
That said, if you only send the e-mail to a single recipient
and you're SURE you don't want the semi-colon, use the code at the
bottom of this post to ensure that the outgoing value doesn't
contain a semi-colon. I doubt it will do anything, but it can't
hurt to try.
If you still see a semi-colon afterwards, it's definitely
being added after the e-mail submission process is being kicked
off.

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Thanks.

As this is Oracle and not MS SQL Server, you don't need to create temporary tables, just write a select statement possibly using WITH or sub-query factoring.
http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B19306_01/server.102/b14200/statements_10002.htm#sthref9758

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