Extracting Multiple Logical Records through sql loader

Hello gurus,
I have few questions regarding the sql loader. I m totally new to this i have never used, this is the first time i m using
1.
How do i find the position number of the charcter or a number ? do i need to physically count the position ? is ther any specific way of counting or use textpad to do that ?
I know it sounds like silly question... but i wanted to know if there is any better way of doing it
2.
example data
1119 Smith      1120 Yvonne
1121 Albert     1130 Thomas
The following control file extracts the logical records:
INTO TABLE emp
     (empno POSITION(1:4) INTEGER EXTERNAL,
      ename POSITION(6:15) CHAR)
INTO TABLE emp
     (empno POSITION(17:20) INTEGER EXTERNAL,
      ename POSITION(21:30) CHAR)---
2. Can you please expalin me what does the "null if deptno = blanks " ?
deptno POSITION(1:2) INTEGER EXTERNAL(2)
              NULLIF deptno=BLANKS,I really appriciate it ~
Thanks

Hi,
The NULLIF means load blanks as NULL
http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B19306_01/server.102/b14215/ldr_field_list.htm#sthref1129
Not sure I understand your first question. You must of course know the format of the file, TextPad could be an ok tool for determining that format for a fixed column width file.
Regards
Peter

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