Reading Text Files using Oracle PL/SQL and UTL_FILE

Question

Hi, experts. I tried to read a text file into oracle. Here is what i did:
1. Create a text file in the directory: C:\temp\New Text Document.txt
2. Run the following SQL in PL/SQL:
CREATE or replace DIRECTORY sampledata AS 'C:\temp\';
grant read, write on directory sampledata to public;
3. When I run the following code, it caused an error: ora-29280: invalid directory path. I have alread checked the directory path, it is correct. Would someone know what wrong is my code?
declare
f utl_file.file_type;
s varchar2(3000);
begin
f := utl_file.fopen('sampledata','New Text Document.txt','R');
utl_file.get_line(f,s);
utl_file.fclose(f);
dbms_output.put_line(s);
end;
Thank you

Answer 1

Try with a filename without spaces:No problem with spaces
SQL> declare
  2  f utl_file.file_type;
  3  s varchar2(3000);
  4  begin
  5  f := utl_file.fopen('SAMPLEDATA','New Text Document.txt','R');
  6  utl_file.get_line(f,s);
  7  utl_file.fclose(f);
  8  dbms_output.put_line(s);
  9  end;
10  /
line1
PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.