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How to autosize the result columns to as small as needed in sqlplus ?

pstein-JavaNetMay 18 2007 — edited Feb 6 2008
When I perform a command in sqlplus the resulting table contains often
columns with a e.g. VARCHAR(80) type. Practically these columns hardly ever contain a value of width 80. However the columns are displayed with width 80
but only the leftmost characters are filled. How can I shrink the displayed column width to the width used by the longest value in it ?
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