Read Text file into Oracle Reports

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Rishka Mar 17, 5:40 am show options

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Date: 17 Mar 2005 05:40:45 -0800
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Subject: Read Text file into Oracle Reports
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Hello

I a newbie to Oracle Reports, our requirement is to write a report from

a text file on the UNIX box, not from a database table.
I have knowledge of PL/SQL, and the UTL_FILE ppackage to extract the
file data and manipulate it..
I would write a stored procedure for this, but our managers do not want

us to write this data to a table and read it from there...

Is it possible to extract data using PL/SQL from a text file into
Oracle Reports?

Please advise, or point me to the correct help..

Thanks
R

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