Sign of an integer external

Hello,
I use an external table to load some signed amount. As a test, we loaded a file with field defined as integer external without the sign.
The data in the database is therefore positive.
What I want is that when this field is loaded , if the sign is not there (replace by a space), then the line should be rejected.
-55 -> -55
+55 -> 55
55 -> line rejected.
can we do that without having a specific field for the sign ?

This is a possibility only if the field is in VARCHAR2, which is not the case. My field is in INTEGER EXTERNAL and the aim is to reject the line in the .bad file if the sign is not there.

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KUP-04101: record 2049 rejected in file <file>
(NOTE: it's not true, the file is correct! if you try to load the single row it will load nicely)
and you'll have an empty EXT_TABLE_LOAD.error
Hope this will help.
Bye,
Antonio

How can an external table handle data with line feed between delimiters?

I have defined an external table as below. My data is pipe delimited and comes from a DOS system.
I already remove any carriage returns before putting the file into the DATA_DIR for reading. But
I have found that some of my VARCHAR fields have embeded line feeds.
Is it possible to have a definition that would remove any line feed characters between the delimiters?
Below I also threw together a sample data set there ID #2 has that extra character. Yes, I could
write an awk script to pre-process all my data files. But I am hoping there is a way for Oracle
to also do this.
I understand the LDTRIM to remove any leading and trailing spaces in the delimited field. Is there a
REPLACE or TRANSLATE option. I did a bit of searching but I must be asking the wrong things.
Thanks for any help
Eric
CREATE TABLE table_ext
id        NUMBER,
desc1     VARCHAR2(64 CHAR),
desc2     VARCHAR2(255 CHAR),
add_date DATE
ORGANIZATION EXTERNAL
TYPE ORACLE_LOADER
DEFAULT DIRECTORY data_dir
ACCESS PARAMETERS
    RECORDS DELIMITED BY NEWLINE
    CHARACTERSET WE8ISO8859P1
    BADFILE     log_dir:'table_ext.bad'
    DISCARDFILE log_dir:'table_ext.dis'
    LOGFILE     log_dir:'table_ext.log'
    FIELDS TERMINATED BY '|' LDRTRIM
    MISSING FIELD VALUES ARE NULL
    id        INTEGER EXTERNAL(38),
    desc1     CHAR(64),
    desc2     CHAR(255),
    add_date CHAR DATE_FORMAT DATE MASK "yyyy-mm-dd hh24:mi",
LOCATION( 'data.txt' )
PARALLEL
REJECT LIMIT UNLIMITED;
1|short desc|long desc|2001-01-01 00:00
2|short desc| long
desc |1999-03-03 23:23
3|short desc| long desc | 2011-02-02 02:02

Thanks for looking. But that relates to the record delimiter which in my case is the pipe character '|'. In my various data sets this is consistent. I expect each record to be one per line. But between two delimiters some data has a line feed. So I'm looking for a method that will "cleanup" the field data as it gets imported.
I was hoping there was an option that would ignore any embedded line feeds (\n) characters. I.e., those not at the end of the line.
Eric

IGNORE COMMENTS IN EXTERNAL TABLE FILE

I currently have a partitioned table, split by month going back some 7 years.
The business have now agreed to archive off some of the data but to have it
available if required. I therefore intend to select month by month, the data
to a flat file and make use of external tables to provide the data for the
business if required. Then to remove the months partition thus releaseing
space back to the database. Each months data is only about 100bytes long, but
there could be about 15million rows.
I can successfully create the external table and read the data.
However I would like to place a header in the spooled file but the only method
I have found to ignore the header is to use the "SKIP" parameter. I would
rather not use this as it hard codes the number of lines I reserve for a
header.
Is there another method to add a comment to a external tables file and have the
selects on the file ignore the comments?
Could I use "LOAD WHEN ( column1 != '--' )" as each comment line begins with a
double dash?
Also, is there a limit to the size of an external tables file?

When I added the lines to attempt to
exclude the Header lines to be:
RECORDS DELIMITED BY newline
NOBADFILE
NODISCARDFILE
NOLOGFILE
SKIP 0
LOAD WHEN ( cvt_seq_num LIKE '--%' )
FIELDS
TERMINATED BY ","
OPTIONALLY ENCLOSED BY '"'
MISSING FIELD VALUES ARE NULL
REJECT ROWS WITH ALL NULL FIELDS
( cvt_seq_num INTEGER EXTERNAL(12)
I got:
select * from old_cvt_external
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-29913: error in executing ODCIEXTTABLEOPENcallout
ORA-29400: data cartridge error
KUP-00554: error encountered while parsing access parameters
KUP-01005: syntax error: found "identifier": expecting one of: "equal,notequal"
KUP-01008: the bad identifier was: LIKE
KUP-01007: at line 6 column 33
ORA-06512: at "SYS.ORACLE_LOADER", line 14
ORA-06512: at line 1
When I moved the line I got:
RECORDS DELIMITED BY newline
NOBADFILE
NODISCARDFILE
NOLOGFILE
SKIP 0
FIELDS
TERMINATED BY ","
OPTIONALLY ENCLOSED BY '"'
MISSING FIELD VALUES ARE NULL
REJECT ROWS WITH ALL NULL FIELDS
LOAD WHEN ( cvt_seq_num LIKE '--%' )
I got:
select * from old_cvt_external
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-29913: error in executing ODCIEXTTABLEOPEN callout
ORA-29400: data cartridge error
KUP-00554: error encountered while parsing access parameters
KUP-01005: syntax error: found "load": expecting one of: "exit, ("
KUP-01007: at line 11 column 11
ORA-06512: at "SYS.ORACLE_LOADER", line 14
ORA-06512: at line 1
So it appears that the "LOAD WHEN" does not work.
Can you please suggest anything else?

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