Set field separator for whitespace

Hi,
We have a set of flat files (around 12000) and it need to be load using oracle external table. we have concatenated all the files into one single file and loading the files into oracle database successfully.
But there is a problem, in the flat files we have identified that the field separator is "whitespace" and we gave whitespace as field separator in oracle external table statement. But there are some fields where there is null values for many rows and since the field separator is whitespace so the next field's value is being inserted into the null value field in place of null.
I am stuck in a very hard situation and really do not know how to come out of it. I have little idea that using awk or sed utilities we can set field separator.
Do you have any idea how to set the field separator in this case?
Your assistance is highly appreciated.
Below is the sample of one of those flat files:
051 419040086626885 55407914 P 00016731 01007644 02 Internet 0160638830 11121906182700021 016 00204 I TEST MNC004.MCC419.GPRS 094.124.161.023 094.124.006.197 094.124.006.010 1275741768 99999
Thanks in advance.

Can you clarify some things about your data?
1. The sample data you posted only shows 20 values but the table has 21 columns. Is the last value NULL?
2. The sample data you posted shows 99999 for the last column but that corresponds to LAST_UPDATE_DATE which is a DATE field
Why the descrepancy?
3. Are the records delimited by CRLF or by LF? or by some other whitespace. CR and LF are considered whitespace
>
If TERMINATED BY WHITESPACE is specified, data is read until the first occurrence of a whitespace character (spaces, tabs, blanks, line feeds, form feeds, or carriage returns). Then the current position is advanced until no more adjacent whitespace characters are found. This allows field values to be delimited by varying amounts of whitespace. For more information about the syntax, see Syntax for Termination and Enclosure Specification.
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so if the first record has one column with a missing (NULL) value the first column from record #2 will be used
as the last column of record #1. The data in the entire file will continue to shift forward causing every record to be wrong.
4. Have you contacted the vendor providing the files to find out how other clients are loading these files into a database?
5. Are there any data columns that cannot be NULL?
In order to properly parse record-oriented data you have to be able to locate the record boundaries; that is determine how many data values there are for each record. Using WHITESPACE alone you will not be able to do that if a NULL value is not represented in the file by some character.
Then for each set of data belonging to one record you need to be able to identify the data that belongs to each column. Using WHITESPACE alone
you will not be able to do that if a NULL value is not represented in the file by some character.
You need to contact the vendor for assistance in having the files produced in a way that they can be properly loaded again. Ask the vendor if they can reload their own files and, if so, what utility they are using to do it. The vendor should be able to use a different delimiter or replace NULL values with a special character so that they are represented in the data.

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