Oracle PL/SQL UTL_FILE.PUT buffering

Question

I\'m writing a large file > 7MB from an Oracle stored procedure and the requirements are to have no line termination characters (no carriage return/line feed) at the end of

Answer 1

Dustin,

The Oracle documentation here: http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B19306_01/appdev.102/b14258/u_file.htm#i1003404

States that: FFLUSH physically writes pending data to the file identified by the file handle. Normally, data being written to a file is buffered. The FFLUSH procedure forces the buffered data to be written to the file. The data must be terminated with a newline character.

The last sentence being the most pertinent.

Could you not write the data using UTL_FILE.PUT_LINE before then searching the resulting file for the line terminators and removing them?

Just a thought....