Hello,

I need to produce delimited text output from my stored procedure, for example:

23;65;some text;

The thing is that semicolon ";" might appear in one of the delimited fields and 
this will cause some bugs on the client side. So I want to change this 
character to a less common one. I've decided to use ASCII 7 - a "Bell" 
character. 

I am afraid that usage like this:

DECLARE V_OUTPUT VARCHAR(1024);
DECLARE V_PARAM VARCHAR(32);
...

V_OUTPUT = V_OUTPUT || ASCII_CHAR(7) || V_PARAM;

will slow down my query because I will be doing a lot of concatenations. 
Correct me if I am wrong but I think that even if I put this code into stored 
procedure, ASCII_CHAR(7) will not be resolved at compile time and will be 
called over and over again?

Is there other way to put my character directly into the query? For semicolon 
that was easy:

V_OUTPUT = V_OUTPUT || ';' || V_PARAM;

but how to do this with a Bell character?

Regards.
 

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