Hi Leslie,
Sounds like your problem is in SQLPlus where the & character is the prefix for
substitution variables.
Look in the SQLPlus manual under SET DEFINE and SET ESCAPE.
You can choose a different character or you can turn off substitution with SET DEFINE
OFF.
You can define an escape character with SET ESCAPE / (did you really mean to use a
forward slash?). The default on my machine is SET ESCAPE OFF which is why your first
attempt didn't work.
Kevin Kennedy
First Point Energy Corporation
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Hi all,
I need to insert some value with & as a part of the
string.
For example, insert ... values ('a & b'); What escape
key should be used?
insert ... values ('a /& b'); -- doesn't work
insert ... values ('a '||'&'||' b'); -- works, but I'd
like to know what escape key works in this case.
Thank you.
Leslie
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