On Thu, 29 Jan 2004 18:31:01 +0000, Andy Hassall <andy@andyh.co.uk>
wrote:

> It's clearly a bug in SQL*Plus (it has no right parsing anything other than
>substitution variables inside strings or comments, certainly not running them
>as an SQL*Plus command unless prefixed with the SQLPREFIX character); so how is
>it a fault on the part of the OP?


It is quite clear Oracle isn't using the BNF method when parsing sql.


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Sybrand Bakker, Senior Oracle DBA