NEW_LINE Procedure

This procedure writes one or more line terminators to the file identified by the input file handle. This procedure is separate from PUT because the line terminator is a platform-specific character or sequence of characters.

Syntax

UTL_FILE.NEW_LINE (
   file     IN FILE_TYPE,
   lines    IN NATURAL := 1);

Parameters

Table 77-14 NEW_LINE Procedure Parameters

Parameters	Description
file	Active file handle returned by an FOPEN or FOPEN_NCHAR call.
lines	Number of line terminators to be written to the file.

Exceptions

INVALID_FILEHANDLE
INVALID_OPERATION
WRITE_ERROR