Spacing between columns in SQL*Plus

Is there a way to format a SQL*Plus report so
numeric columns are not preceeded by a space?
I've already have the setting SET COLSEP ''
but that doesn't work on the numeric fields.
I've also tried setting the column format
and converting the numbers to strings. Any
help will be much appreciated!!

Numeric values are preceeding with a blank because of the sign (which is not included in the definition number(3,2) = -9.99 to +9.99).
You need to convert to char and trim :
select trim(to_char(mynumber)) mynumber from mytable;

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sqldeveloper64-3.2.09.30-no-jre.zip.
My jdk now is 1.7.07 x64, Windows 7 x64.
C:\Java\jdk17\bin>java -version
java version "1.7.0_07"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.7.0_07-b11)
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col column_name format a20
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15 25 SYS                            INDEX_STATS                    LF_ROWS_LEN                    sum of the lengths of all the leaf rows
16 25 SYS                            INDEX_STATS                    MOST_REPEATED_KEY              how many times the most repeated key is repeated
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18 25 SYS                            INDEX_STATS                    OPT_CMPR_COUNT                 optimal prefix compression count for the index
19 25 SYS                            INDEX_STATS                    OPT_CMPR_PCTSAVE               percentage storage saving expected from optimal prefix compression
20 25 SYS                            INDEX_STATS                    PARTITION_NAME                 name of the index partition, if partitioned
21 25 SYS                            INDEX_STATS                    PCT_USED                       percent of space allocated in the b-tree that is being used
22 25 SYS                            INDEX_STATS                    PRE_ROWS                       number of prefix rows (values in the index)
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24 25 SYS                            INDEX_STATS                    ROWS_PER_KEY                   average number of rows per distinct key
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R C OWNER      TABLE_NAME           COLUMN_NAME          COMMENTS
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