How about using external table? You define the table as external having one field. I think that select * from such table will bring you the lines in order and then you can do whatever you want with the data.
Yechiel Adar Mehish ----- Original Message ----- To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2002 1:33 PM > Client is not accepting to use the utl_file for reading data from the file. > i have to fetch each line from the file and process it for storing the > information in various tables. so apart from sql loader can u suggest other > method (excluding utl_file) for doing the same operation. > > Best Regards, > Shankar > > -----Original Message----- > Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2002 3:23 PM > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L > > > >Hi friends, > > I have to load a input file into a oracle > >table . The table has only > >one field which will store each line as a single > >row . The order of the file > >is very important for my further process. > > Perhaps you should re-read a paper published in 1970 in 'Communications of > the ACM' by an Edward Codd. IMHO you do not need a relational database at > this stage of your process. > > Regards, > > Stephane Faroult > Oriole > -- > Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com > -- > Author: Stephane Faroul > INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Fat City Network Services -- (858) 538-5051 FAX: (858) 538-5051 > San Diego, California -- Public Internet access / Mailing Lists > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message > to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in > the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L > (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may > also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing). > -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Yechiel Adar INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services -- (858) 538-5051 FAX: (858) 538-5051 San Diego, California -- Public Internet access / Mailing Lists -------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing).
