RE: Skipping columns with SQLLDR

use FILLER, as in

col_a  CHAR,
col_b  FILLER,
col_c  CHAR

hth,

Yosi

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Wayne S Bellefeuille [mailto:wbellefe_at_allina.com]
> Sent: Monday, October 02, 2000 10:35 AM
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> Subject: Skipping columns with SQLLDR
>
>
> Okay, so what am I missing here?
>
> I want to be able to use SQLLDR to load a tab-delimited file
> into a table, but
> the tab-delimited file has extra columns in it that I don't
> want to use. How
> can I build a control file to skip these extra columns in the file?
>
> What would the control file be for the following example:
> Table:
> CREATE TABLE wayne
> (col_a VARCHAR2(20),
> col_b VARCHAR2(20));
>
> Flat file (tab-delimited):
> junk<TAB>col_a data<TAB>junk<TAB>junk<TAB>col_b data<TAB><TAB>
>
> Note that I cannot simply use positional columns here, since
> the length of each
> flat-file column is variable.
>
> Is my only choice to clean up the flat file to get rid of the
> "junk" columns?
>
> Wayne
>
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Received on Mon Oct 02 2000 - 09:14:17 CDT