External table is not accepting more than 255 Characters

Hi,
I'm new to External table.. Somehow External table is not accepting more than 255 Characters even though I'm using VARCHAR2(4000 BYTES).. Can you please help me..
CREATE TABLE DM_CL_ExterTbl_Project
project_name VARCHAR2(80 BYTE),
project_id VARCHAR2(20 BYTE),
work_type VARCHAR2(100 BYTE),
work_description VARCHAR2(4000 BYTE)
ORGANIZATION EXTERNAL
TYPE ORACLE_LOADER
DEFAULT DIRECTORY UTL_FILE_DIR
ACCESS PARAMETERS
records delimited by '#(_@p9#' SKIP 1
logfile 'pp.log'
badfile 'pp1.bad'
fields terminated by ','
OPTIONALLY ENCLOSED BY '"' and '"'LDRTRIM
missing field values are null
REJECT ROWS WITH ALL NULL FIELDS
project_name,
project_id,
work_type,
work_description
LOCATION (UTL_FILE_DIR:'TOG_Data_Extract.csv')
REJECT LIMIT UNLIMITED
NOPARALLEL
NOMONITORING
Thanks in advance..
~~Manju

I got the asnwer.. In the filed list I have to specify the datatype & it's Size otherwise by default it will take CHAR(255)..
work_type CHAR(4000) solved the problem..!!

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