Yep. When I run the code I provided to you in SQLPlus, it works perfectly.

>My apologies,
>after I sent the message I realized I did not say when it was giving me the error.
>I pasted the code you highlighted into TOAD, (a product from Quest Software)
>when I executed it, it came out with "ORA-00911: invalid character"
>You think I should try from SQL Plus?