Re: SQL*Loader questions

In article <385487BA.C71B459_at_citec.com.au>,   Jerome Chik <jerome.chik_at_citec.com.au> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> My datafiles are delimited, e.g. by |
>
> (1) How do I make a field of four blank spaces, enclosed by
delimiters,
> to be loaded as a NULL instead of four spaces?
>
> (2) How do I make the last field, if it starts with a delimiter and
does
> not contain anything but a carriage return, to load a NULL instead of
a
> carriage return? (I believe this was what happened). e.g., the
> following has four columns, the last one is supposed to be a null
> column, i.e. after the last delimiter:
>
> first field|second field|third field|
> first field|second field|third field|
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Jerome.
>
>

I loaded stuff like that "as is", then did an update set field4 = rtrim (field4);

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