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What is the best way to escape non-format characters in Oracle's to_char?

I am trying to print a date in a select statement, but I need to add a letter to the output:

to_char(date_updated, 'YYYY-MM-DDTHH:mm:ss')

Oracle does not like the T. I just want the T to be output like the colons and the dashes. Can I escape it with a backslash or something?

+4  A: 

You just need double-quotes around it:

to_char(date_updated, 'YYYY-MM-DD"T"HH:mm:ss')
Chad Birch  2009-02-25 23:47:31
Thanks for this - once again Stack Overflow has saved my bacon.
Darren Greaves  2009-12-08 09:51:35

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