Does the Oracle LOADER not like '\n' as a delimitor?

From: BEVERLY SEAVEY <nmrdb_at_vms.macc.wisc.edu>
Date: 13 JUL 93 10:56:35
Message-ID: <1993Jul13.160353.28808_at_macc.wisc.edu>


I am generated output files to be loaded by a general loader, i.e., not just oracle, but Sybase and Ingres too.

The problem I am having is that I want to delimit some of fields with a
newline. If I put in my control file

   "terminated by '\n'        "
or "terminated by "\n"        "

the loader complains, "expected quoted character, found "\n".

Because I want to stay compatible with other systems, I prefer not to use the "ENCLOSED BY " option.

Apparently Oracle objects to the fact that, as it parses, it thinks \n is 2 characters. Oracle supples "WHITESPACE" as a possible delimitor. Does it also have something like "NEWLINE"? Received on Tue Jul 13 1993 - 10:56:35 CEST

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