pl/sql - looping thru all files in a directory

I have done quite a bit using the UTL_FILE built in package. I can do just about all the file i/o that I need to do. In every case however, the file name is known.

In a previous project I was given the file names. Now I am told that all the files reside in a directory and the I need to loop all files in that directory.

In PL/SQL, how can I loop through all the files in a directory (ex. c:\data} and process each file. If I have 5 files in my directory I want to loop through each file until the processing is done.

I guess that I need to be able to get a directory listing in PL/SQL. Does anyone have any ideas?

Thanks. Received on Wed Jan 12 2000 - 23:04:46 CST