SQL*Loader Delimited Problem

Hi, help would be appreciated,

Problem:

Pipe delimited variable length file.

table1.col1 | table1.col2 | table1.col3 | table2.col1 | table2.col2 | table1.col4

control file

load data
into table table1
(col1,

 col2,
col3)

--
into table table2


(col1,

col2)
--
into table table1


(col4)


This of course starts a new row for table1.col4, my current work around is
to stage the data through work tables.

load data
into table table1


(load_rec recnum,

col1,
 col2,
col3)
--
into table table2


(col1,

col2)
--
into table table1_tail


(load_rec recnum,

col4)

And use a quick piece of SQL to add them back joining on load_rec.
In this event it was easier than using a utility to convert from variable
length to fixed length, which also solves this problem.

Despite the above, in an ideal world, I would be able to manage it all from
the control file, the best candidate seemed to be continueif but I haven't
been able to apply that to this situation.  Any thoughts?

TIA

Jonathan