Why doesn't ORACLE allow consecutive newline characters in commands?

Question

I write:

CREATE TABLE Person ( 
name CHAR(10),

ssn INTEGER);

and save it to a file "a.sql".

If I then run it by typing &quo

Answer 1

But if you are wanting to insert multiline text in a varchar2 or a clob field, you may use chr(10)

 insert into t values ('Hello,'||chr(10)||chr(10)||' How are you?');

 insert into t values (
 'Hello,

 How are you');   

will not work for reasons explained above.