Import a text file into database

If anybody could help me with this, i would GREATLY appreciate it! I need to write a procedure to import a text file into an oracle database table. -Thanks!

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hi all,
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test_loader.ctl
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Importing text file into database

Hi again,
Could anyone give me any pointers on how to take a text file or csv file (or any other delimeted text file) and read the contents into java and then use the read in data to then insert the delimeted data into the table.
i assume i have to read the delimeted data into a variable then parse the complete string with the delimeter and split the data up maybe in an array. Maybe this is completely wrong, im really unsure.
any help would be greatly appreciated even a point in the right direction would be great :)
kind regards.

Well, atleast i dont know of a single method, which does this kind of nonhomogenous task!! Its not hard to impliment what you want-->
//open the text file using FileInputStream & get the contents in a String variable
//Tokenise it
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while(st.hasMoreTokens())
i++;
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Importing a Text File to Database

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"I would be really grateful."
But now OP will not really grateful to you; because;
1.You are not going to perform/import the data at his machine.
2.You have not given him the required control file.... (even without knowning anything)
3.You have given only SQL Loader word; so now "oaf... i have to read Doc.."
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Copyright (c) 1982, 2004, Oracle. All rights reserved.
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I appreciate if someone could show me how to the import from a file into a table!
Thanks,
Mitra

>
I can say that anybody with
no experience could easily do an export/import in
MSSQLServer 2000.
Anybody with no experience should not mess up my Oracle Databases !

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CDC:00537 / Mon Jun-21-2010                           LIABILITY REPORT                               Mon Jun-21-2010 22:06:26
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