Allow user to import excel file without using wizard ?

Hi !
How can i realize an application where the user can import an excel sheet. The user should just choose the file to import and all the other things should happen automatically. The files are allways equal, allways same colums, allways same delimiters and the destination table is allways the same, too.
With other words : how to build an own import wizard ?
I know that i can easily upload a csv file to the database. But how can i get access to the uploaded file from sql or pl/sql ? If this would work, i could make simple selects and insert them into the destination.
Perhaps someone can help me.
Greetings
Bernd

Bernd,
You're on the right track. For now, you'll have to write your own parsing routine and do your own inserts. If you follow the how to on uploading files, you can then simply take the blob and parse through it in pl/sql.
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