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Lucky you're on 8.1.6 - There's a filler clause in the column definition. It
will
ignore the data column.
hth,
Yosi
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bala, Prakash [mailto:Prakash_Bala_at_bscc.bls.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 22, 2000 4:49 PM
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> Subject: SQL*Loader question
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I am running Oracle 8.1.6 on Solaris.
>
> I have a variable length input file having 32 columns. The columns are
> terminated with a '~'. I need to ignore columns 22 to 28
> while loading the
> data.
>
> Since I cannot use 'POSITION', how will I define this in the
> control file?
>
>
> TIA,
> Prakash
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