Sql Loader loading separate date parts into a date

Question

Hello,
I'm having a question on SQL Loader.
Suppose I have a flat file with a format:
"John Jackson", 2007, 12, 31, 23, 59, 01
"William Smith", 2007, 12, 31, 23, 59, 02
"Tracy vanDijk", 2007, 12, 31, 23, 59, 03
And I like to put it in a table TEST with (name varchar(20), mydate date).
The problem is: how to create a control file for sqlLoader that converts the seperate date-elements into a date field?
load data
infile 'mydata.csv'
badfile 'badfile.log'
discardfile 'discardfile.log'
append
into table TEST
fields terminated by "," optionally enclosed by '"'          
( name, mydate ????)
I'd like to put it in one step into a date field, and not using seperate tables, stored procedures, triggers and such. I think it must be possible, but I wasn't able to find a working example thus far.
Hope you can help me out.

Answer 1

A colleague came up with the BOUNDFILLER option. Searching again on the forum I created the solution, that I'd like to share with you.
SQL> create table TEST1 (naam varchar(30), meetdatum date);
Tabel is aangemaakt.
mydata.csv:
"Scott Tiger", 2006, 02, 18, 23, 59, 4
"Frank Naude", 2007, 12, 31, 18, 00, 59
"Fou TeDatum", 2007, 02, 31, 01, 10, 5
"Johnny Smith", 2007, 1, 1, 12, 00 , 00
laden.ctl:
load data
infile 'mydata.csv'
badfile 'badfile.log'
discardfile 'discardfile.log'
into table test1
fields terminated by "," optionally enclosed by '"'     
trailing nullcols     
( naam
,b_yyyy boundfiller char
,b_mm boundfiller char
,b_dd boundfiller char
,b_hh24 boundfiller char
,b_mi boundfiller char
,b_ss boundfiller char
,meetdatum "to_date(:b_yyyy || :b_mm || :b_dd || :b_hh24 || :b_mi || :b_ss , 'YYYYMMDDHH24MISS')"
SQL> alter session set nls_date_format = 'YYYY-MM-DD:HH24:MI:SS' ;
SQL> select * from test1;
NAAM MEETDATUM
Scott Tiger 2006-02-18:23:59:04
Frank Naude 2007-12-31:18:00:59
Johnny Smith 2007-11-12:00:00:00
The wrong date, Feb 31st, is spooled to the badfile.