Help required to build SQL loader control file

I have a table, That we need to load using SQL loader.
table structure is --
<emp_id>,<first_name>,<middle_name>,<last_name>,<sal>
The structure of flat file is like below,
<emp_id>|<emp_name>|<sal>
<emp_name> field can contain space to define first name, middle name and last name,
if no space is there means we only need to load first name. and one space means First and last name should load.
Sample flat file--
1001|Ram|10000
1002|Syam Kumar Sharma|20000
1003|Jadu Prashad|15000
Please help me out to build the control file.
Thanks in Advance

Means, can use DBMS_SCHEDULER for loading data ?Yes, you can create procedures for that and let the scheduler execute them on the desired interval
(you can even execute OS commands through DBMS_SCHEDULER).
Read about it here:
http://www.oracle.com/pls/db102/search?word=DBMS_SCHEDULER&partno=
http://www.oracle-base.com/articles/10g/Scheduler10g.php
By the way, instead of using sqlloader why not switch to using external tables?
http://asktom.oracle.com/pls/asktom/f?p=100:11:0::::P11_QUESTION_ID:6611962171229
http://www.oracle-base.com/articles/9i/SQLNewFeatures9i.php#ExternalTables
A few other approaches (pre 10g)
http://asktom.oracle.com/pls/asktom/f?p=100:11:0::::P11_QUESTION_ID:2048340300346698595
http://asktom.oracle.com/pls/asktom/f?p=100:11:0::::P11_QUESTION_ID:3084681089099

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