Re: How to load text file into database table

David,
I don't know sqlldr that well, but a possible quick and dirty solution - is to load the text file into a one column oracle table, and then in a subsequent step, use SQL to move the data to the proper columns of the proper Oracle table. The ctl file from the first step would be something like this:
1)
LOAD DATA
INFILE useraccnt.txt
APPEND
concatentate 7
INTO TABLE temp
(txt char(2000)

)

In the second step you could use a bunch of substr and instr to find the column data, or use PL/SQL to loop through the text , or you could use a function in the owa_pattern package

Chaim

"Nguyen, David M" <david.m.nguyen_at_xo.com>@fatcity.com on 09/20/2002 11:53:29 AM

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I have a text file and need to load it into database table using sqlldr utility. Is there a way to load a text file? I know how to load csv file but not text file.

• Below is text file format.

Date: Wed Aug 29 10:43:53 CDT 2001
Name: Paris By Night
Email: xyz_at_testing.com
Phone: 202-333-4444
Location: Washington, DC
Equipment needing to access: EMS, , , , , Reason: Not working

I want to above data into useraccount table which has following columns.

date
username
email
phone
location
equipment
reason

Thanks in advance,
David

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