Receiving ORA-01465: invalid hex number when using HEXTORAW

Question

I'm trying to use hextoraw to convert a value in a CSV file read from an external table. Works on some systems and not on others. Is there a way that I can avoid this or program around this? Any ideas what the problem is? It fails with an “invalid hex value” .
This is for Oracle 10.2.0.4 Here is the code and the external table that I’m using.
select HEXTORAW(REPLACE(EnkryptedPassword,'0x')) FROM CUSTOMER1; <--- Failes or ORA-01465 (CSV file data below)
CREATE TABLE CUSTOMER1
UserID VARCHAR2(100 CHAR),
FirstName VARCHAR2(50 CHAR),
LastName VARCHAR2(50 CHAR),
Locked VARCHAR2(50 CHAR),
CustomerID VARCHAR2(100 CHAR),
Pwd VARCHAR2(100 CHAR),
EnkryptedPassword VARCHAR2(100 CHAR)
ORGANIZATION external
TYPE ORACLE_LOADER
DEFAULT DIRECTORY ARCHIVE
ACCESS PARAMETERS
RECORDS DELIMITED BY NEWLINE
FIELDS TERMINATED BY ","
MISSING FIELD VALUES ARE NULL
LOCATION ('PWDCONVERSION2')
REJECT LIMIT 1
COMMIT
Inside the PWDCONVERSION2 file:
[email protected],JOHN,SMITH,1,C_2M8C2F_CM_NC,C_2M8C2F_CM_NC,0x7C4141938A1F69944BFCA0BED5BB3FEA3CA92A7

Answer 1

Thank-you for the response. I believe I may have found the problem (probably).
On some systems the ACCESS PARAMETER for the external table "RECODRDS DELIMITED BY NEWLINE" will not work if there is some other character other than "\n". In windows it works fine. On some other systems it works finds as well. On Linux Distro I tend to run into problems. I tried this out for more than one line in the CSV. Then scaled back to just one line. It accepted one line but not more than one line. So I trying
RECORDS DELIMITED BY NEWLINE CHARACTERSET WE8MSWIN1252
Any ideas what would help recognize all types of newline characters?