I don't know for sure but I would think you would need to use something like
"char(9)".  I believe the TAB is a decimal 9.

Charles Finley
619-795-0720

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> As part of a migration project I'm converting a program on the e3000 to
> a stored procedure (Oracle on Solaris). Within my procedure I need to
> load a TAB character into a character variable but have been unable to
> discover the way to do it. Any suggestions?
> 
> regards,
> 
> Robert W.Mills
> Business Systems Development Analyst
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