Extension of UTL_File [message #375753] |
Sun, 14 December 2008 02:30  |
imran_nu
Messages: 55 Registered: February 2007 Location: Islamabad
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Hi all
I want to import some data from a webpage source file. The data is in the form
i city1 apple 200 banana 100 carrot 400 i city2 sweet 150 peach 200
and so on....
I have gone through the forum help regarding UTL_file but wasn't able to understand that how can i read chracter by chracter to search the specific city and their products and price
I have to write this data in the format in the text file
city1,apple,200
city1,banana,100
city1,carrot,400
city2,sweet,150
city2,peach,200$
Can anyone help me out... i have only end of today for this assignment to complete
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Re: Extension of UTL_File [message #375756 is a reply to message #375753] |
Sun, 14 December 2008 03:42   |
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Michel Cadot
Messages: 68734 Registered: March 2007 Location: Saint-Maur, France, https...
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Why do you want to use Oracle to read a file, format the line and write into a file?
Use OS program like "awk".
And if it is just a homework on PL/SQL and UTL_FILE, you have to show us what you tried.
Regards
Michel
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Re: Extension of UTL_File [message #375766 is a reply to message #375753] |
Sun, 14 December 2008 05:49   |
imran_nu
Messages: 55 Registered: February 2007 Location: Islamabad
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I have a bulk of related data and i cannot do it manually.
May i know some other way of doing the same
owk? what it is
thanks for your reply
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Re: Extension of UTL_File [message #375798 is a reply to message #375753] |
Sun, 14 December 2008 15:12  |
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Barbara Boehmer
Messages: 9104 Registered: November 2002 Location: California, USA
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There are probably a lot of ways you could do this. They all involve replacing your i's with linefeeds and your whitespace with commas. You could open a text file in notepad and do that with a few global replaces. Or you could use utl_file to read and replace and write. Or you could load the whole thing into one clob, replace, then dump back. Or you could use SQL*Loader or an external table to load it in then spool it back out. You need to either make some attempt of your own or explain why you need to do this or what the ultimate goal is. If this is a homework assignment and it is required to be done in a certain way then say so. If not, then explain what the text file is used for once the data is in it as there may be a simpler way to reach the ultimate goal. For example, if you are trying to format it for easy loading into a table, then you might as well skip that step and load it as is, specifying whitespace as field delimiters and i as your record delimiter.
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