Moving data's from collection

Hi friends,
I have a APEX form and soon after if i insert via form means, then it will save the details(data's) in the table. But my question is how to move a data from a collection table to a main table. Is there any way of moving the stored data's from the collection to the table.
Once the data is transferred into the table from collection, the transferred data in the collection has to get deleted. Only the data's which is not transferred to the main table should exist in the collection.
Once the data is transferred from the collection to the table means, then that transferred data (i.e) row data should not exist in collection..
Anyways of achieving it friends.
Brgds,
Mini

Dear Jari,
I have created an example in apex.oracle.com
http://apex.oracle.com/pls/apex
Workspace: mini_ws
Username: [email protected]
Password: 4i@duppyApplication 11569 - Upload Data File..
I have two buttons over there..one is Upload and the other one is Upload1
If u pressed Upload button soon after browsing one csv file with a Separator as ,(comma), then the datas from the .csv file will be saved in the collection..
And after that if u pressed the Upload1 button means, then the data from the collection will be saved in my custom table named(excel_upload_table).
What is the problem that im facing here is.
Suppose if i upload the csv file with an column heading for each column(that is the two column ID, NAME) means then i couldnt upload the data from collection to my custom table.
I have two columns in my custom table like
<li> ID
<li> Name
But if i upload the csv file without the column heading for each column(that is the two column ID, NAME) means, then i can upload the data from the collection to the my custom table.
How i can proceed with this task, so that i can upload the csv file with the column heading for each and every column.
Brgds,
Mini

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Thanku
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Edit your .filelist files and change the single quotes at the start and end of each <file uri line to double quotes
I don't regard "remove quotes from your file names" as an acceptable workaround, however. We've got nearly 400GB of files, going back more than 10 years, and various of these are referred to from other locations, e.g. InDesign publications: if we were to rename locations for the benefit of Bridge, we'd break other stuff on the PC.
Clare

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