Re: PL/SQL and Unix flat files

From: Reid Lai <reidlai_at_hk.super.net>
Date: 1996/06/07
Message-ID: <4p98ru$s9o_at_tst.hk.super.net>#1/1


rtb_at_interaccess.com (Richard Bergdahl) wrote:

>Can PL/SQL read a unix flat file as input? I'm thinking of writing a
>procedure to read in a flat file and update/insert it's contents to a table
>after doing a little string manipulation on each record read. Normally I
>would use Pro*C to do this, but the client seems to have a little C-phobia.
 

>Is this possible with PL/SQL?
 

>Rich

If you are using Oracle 7.3 or later, you can uitilize UTIL_FILE Oracle built-in package. Received on Fri Jun 07 1996 - 00:00:00 CEST

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