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input variable empty

edited Feb 25, 2016 4:02AM in SQL*Plus (MOSC) 3 commentsAnswered

There's this one little issue I've never been able to find an answer to, so I guess it's time to ask you guys.

Given there is an SQL script, which should accept one parameter. No problem, I'm catching the value with

&1

and all works!

But ... I want the script also to work without any parameter specified. Why exactly that is, I'm not detailing since there may be totally other solutions for that problem.

So, when I launch the script without parameters, it says :

Enter value for 1:

The problem I have is that I would prefer to state something else than "1", by means of using stuff like:

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