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How to Remove Carriage Returns, Line Feeds and Extra Spaces from the Data in a Report Column (Doc ID 882826.1)

Last updated on OCTOBER 10, 2023

Applies to:

Oracle Reports Developer - Version 10.1.2.0.2 and later
Oracle Forms for OCI - Version 12.2.1.4.0 and later
Information in this document applies to any platform.
A report has a column which has control characters like line feed, carriage return, tabs. It also contains several white spaces. Due to this, the output of report does not format properly.


Goal

How to format a field having spaces, carriage returns, tabs and line feeds.

Solution

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