Trim Leading Blanks With Sql Loader

From: Val <vegas_girlie_at_hotmail.com>
Date: 8 Jul 2003 09:30:40 -0700
Message-ID: <7d04f924.0307080830.521d97ef@posting.google.com>

I am having a problem loading in records from a flat file where there are leading blanks. In our table those columns are defined as char(1). In the flat file the fields are coming in with 4 blank spaces and 1 char OR all blank spaces. I have tried the trim funtion and it doesnt seem work. Please help! Below is my control file with the input records...

LOAD DATA INTO TABLE "test"
TRUNCATE
FIELDS TERMINATED BY '|'
TRAILING NULLCOLS
(A DATE 'DD-MM-YYYY' NULLIF CRT_DT=BLANKS,    B,
   C,
   D NULLIF D=BLANKS,

   E, 
   F, 
   G, 
   H, 
   I, 
   J, 
   K, 
   L, 
   M, 
   N, 
   O, 
   P, 
   Q, 
   R char(1) "decode(LTRIM(R),NULL,NULL,LTRIM(r))",
   S char(1) "decode(LTRIM(S) ,NULL,NULL)",

   T char(1) "decode(LTRIM(T),NULL,NULL)",    U char(1) "decode(LTRIM(U),NULL,NULL)")

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