Re: SQLLDR - whitespace (tab & space) problem

You can no doubt do this with Sql*loader.

Personally, I like to clean up the data first instead. I find it easier to work with that way.

These task are easy on unix, and not too bad on windoze if you get some decent text tools.

The following line for instance will change all tab characters to a space, then compress all consecutive spaces to a single space.

  tr "\011" " " < dirty.txt | tr -s " " >| clean.txt

You can even send the output to a pipe, and read the pipe directly from sqlloader

  mkfifo loader_pipe
  tr "\011" " " < test.txt | tr -s " " > loader_pipe &   sqlloader ... data=loader_pipe ...

Jared

On Friday 27 April 2001 11:40, Helen Zhung wrote:
> Hello:
> I'm new to SQL Loader. Is there a way to code in control file that can
> separate 'a tab' and 'a blank space' ? I use "FIELDS TERMINATED BY
> WHITESPACE", but it will TERMINATE a field when there is a space or a tab.
> However, the data fields were separated only by the "tab", not 'a space'.
> Is it possible to identify the two? Thanks
>
>
>
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