Use of q operator in oracle 11g

Question

Hi,
I am looking for following data Rewards–ALL (UK/IE,US,Germany & China). even though i have used q operator. when report is generated using following query
and UTL_FILE in excel sheet it show following data
Rewards–ALL (UK/IE,US,Germany & China)here is the query. sql developer worksheet result tab shows Rewards–ALL (UK/IE,US,Germany & China) though
SELECT 'c' temp,q'#Rewards–ALL (UK/IE,US,Germany & China)#'
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sandy
Edited by: Sandy310 on Apr 27, 2010 5:10 PM
Edited by: Sandy310 on Apr 27, 2010 5:10 PM

Answer 1

First, it appears you have an illegal ASCII character after REWARDS - the "–" character.
Did you SET ESCAPE ON ?
Here is what I did after changing out the illegal character in SQL Developer, I executed it as a script.
set escape on
SELECT  'c' temp
        ,q'[Rewards-ALL (UK/IE,US,Germany \& China)]'  search_string
FROM
         dual   ;
TEMP SEARCH_STRING                         
c    Rewards-ALL (UK/IE,US,Germany & China)I don't know why you are using the q operator. It is designed to eliminate the need for doubling up single quotes - the string you have does not have any quotes.