Is there an easy way to clone the structure of a table in Oracle?

Question

If I have a table like:

CREATE TABLE FRED
(
recordId number(18) primary key,
firstName varchar2(50)
);

Is there an easy way to clone it's structure (not it's data) into another table of a given name. Basically I want to create table with exactly the same structure, but a different name, so that I can perform some functionality on it. I want to do this in code obviously. Java preferably, but most other languages should be similar.

Answer 1

CREATE TABLE tablename AS SELECT * FROM orginaltable WHERE 1=2;

Edit: The WHERE clause prohibits any rows from qualifying.

Answer 2

If you're looking a way to find the exact DDL to recreate the table, including the storage clause, you can use

select dbms_metadata.get_ddl('TABLE', 'TABLE_NAME', 'SCHEMA_NAME') from dual

as described here.