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Old 07-13-2006
I couldnt get mcnamara's to work, but your worked fine...thanks!
# 9  
Old 07-14-2006
You could remove leading spaces back down to sqlplus using ... to_char( thenumberhere,'fm0000000' ) ...
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Old 07-15-2006
Code:
awk 'BEGIN{RS=""} {print $NF; exit}'

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