Adding Line Feeds To Select Statement Output

To put line feeds in the results from a select statement, so that you can produce several lines of text split where you want them, use chr(10) where you want the line split to occur, such as:

select 'first line contents' || chr(10) || 'second line contents' from dual;

If you need an exact number of characters per line, padded on the right with blanks, use rpad:

select rpad('first line contents',80) || chr(10) || rpad('second line contents',80) from dual;

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