How to read a source file?

Hi Everyone,
I have to write a script that read a souce file, each line is a record with 5 fields with a comma-delimited and insert these records to a table. The file is in a local folder. I have no idea how to do this yet.
A friend of mine suggested to read the file into a temp table. After insert all record then drop the table.
I am thinking there should be a way to read the file into a cursor and insert records in a loop.
Any suggestion would be appriciated.
Thank you in advance.
PS: I am using windows 2000 and Oracle release is 8.0.6.0.0
Message was edited by:
hyniem

You can either use EXTERNAL Tables or UTL_FILE.

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