Format input for Sql*Loader

I have a problem in formating an input file for Sql*Loader
The file has the following format:
1 Jeff
2 Kyle
3 Tom
1 Lisa
2 Bryan
3 Max
4 Rob
5 Steve
1 Richard
2 Mary
and so on
the file should look as follows to process with Sql*Loader:
1 Jeff 2 Kyle 3 Tom
1 Lisa 2 Bryan 3 Max 4 Rob 5 Steve
1 Richard 2 Mary
any suggestions?
Edited by: royce on Sep 18, 2008 2:08 AM

royce wrote:
I have a problem in formating an input file for Sql*Loader
The file has the following format:
1 Jeff
2 Kyle
3 Tom
1 Lisa
2 Bryan
3 Max
4 Rob
5 Steve
1 Richard
2 Mary
and so on
the file should look as follows to process with Sql*Loader:
1 Jeff 2 Kyle 3 Tom
1 Lisa 2 Bryan 3 Max 4 Rob 5 Steve
1 Richard 2 Mary
any suggestions?
Edited by: royce on Sep 18, 2008 2:08 AMActually, looking at your data again, you don't have a consistent format, so this makes it really difficult for something like SQL*Loader to process. If there were just e.g. 3 rows per record then that would be simple, but you are expecting SQL*Loader to look ahead to determine if there is more data or if it's reached the end of the record.
You would be better to load the data (external tables would probably make it quicker and easier as the data will come in the order as it is specified in the file, which would help as you have no group identifier against the sets of records) as it is and then use SQL to process them.
You haven't specified the resulting table that the data is loaded into. Is that just one single VARCHAR column with all the data concatenated or is it several columns (one for each name)?

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