As you said. You can have the data in a separate file You don't need to concatenate anything at all.

Create a separate control file 'n1822.ctl' like:

LOAD DATA
INFILE 'n1822.txt'
INTO TABLE {table name}
(
  person_id        POSITION(1:9)        CHAR(9)
  surname        POSITION(10:34)        CHAR(25)
  given_names        POSITION(35-59)        CHAR(25)
)

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Point your loader command to that file like:

# sqlldr USERID=scott/tiger control='n1822.ctl' log='log.txt' bad='bad.txt' direct=true


/brother t0mas

In reply to Re: Batch loading data into Oracle - Perl to the rescue! by t0mas
in thread Batch loading data into Oracle - Perl to the rescue! by hotyopa

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