handling special characters in sqlldr

[dmardkar]

Hi,

I am trying to load a record(s) in a table which contains a field of
text datatype. The records in question contain occasional single
qoutes. This is an example of such records:

en|PRD-SHPE|11.0|NOTE: If a slab is a dummy', an asterisk is
displayed at the end of the|20011003.0|

I am then creating a control file and use sqlldr to load the data but
the load fails with the following messege:

Record 1: Rejected - Error on table SCRHLP_REC, column HLP_TXT.
ORA-12899: value too large for column
"RPSNX31"."SCRHLP_REC"."HLP_TXT" (actual: 75, maximum: 74)

Here is the control file I am using:

load data
infile "./scrhlp.dat" "str X'400A'"
badfile "./scrhlp.bad"
into table scrhlp_rec
fields terminated by "|"
(
HLP_LNG_CD ,
HLP_FLD_NM ,
HLP_LN_NO ,
HLP_TXT ,
HLP_REF_DT
)

If I remove the single qoute in the data, all works fine. How do I
specify that a single qoute is acceptable in this case? Please help.

Thanks.

[shakespeare]

Op 9-9-2010 18:11, dmardkar schreef:

Make the column some chars longer.

Shakespeare

[ddf]

I have no problems loadng data with a single-quote inline; are your
text strings enclosed with ' or "? Using " my loads succeed.
Possibly you should change the enclosing quotation character for your
string data.

David Fitzjarrell

[y.ashok...@gmail.com]

Hi,
Do you got solution for your raised concern. i am also having the same issue. could you please help on this.

Thanks
ASHOK