SQL*Loader - How to combine 2 controlfiles to one controlfile

I have several controllfiles which each import another table from another datafile, because I don't want execute every seperat or create a batch file.... I'm looking for a way to put they all in one single controlfile.
example:
1st ctl-file:
LOAD DATA
INFILE "t1.dat"
INTO TABLE t1 REPLACE
FIELDS TERMINATED BY "     "
(c1,
c2 "to_number(:c2,'99999999999999999.99999999999999999','NLS_NUMERIC_CHARACTERS=''.,''')",
c3 date 'YYYY-MM-DD"T"HH24:MI:SS')
gQuqT     478.60636734965914     2006-12-05T11:00:49
ÜgQK     963.0277916962095     2006-12-30T08:03:00
üZfxN     465.15226622488257     2006-12-30T09:14:12
2nd ctl-file:
LOAD DATA
INFILE "t2.dat"
INTO TABLE t2 REPLACE
FIELDS TERMINATED BY "     "
(c1,
c2 "to_number(:c2,'99999999999999999.99999999999999999','NLS_NUMERIC_CHARACTERS=''.,''')")
alvwxs     13.0
poeh     15.0
zpgiht     21.0
At the examples is everytime used a id column, to ident which row should import in which table.
But at my case i need something like a where condition from which file the data should be imported....how should it look?
Can someone give me an advice how a controlfile should look which import both tables in one controlfile?
BR
roland

It is not possible to combine the last 3 columns as those columns are seperated by commas and in the SQL Loader control file you must ve specified COMMA as an delimiter. So u better have all the columns in the table plus add one more column which holds the concatenation of the 3 columns.
Vijay

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2    (col1 varchar2(4),
3     col2 varchar2(60))
4 /
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Copyright (c) 1982, 2009, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
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2 /
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3    v_atr   varchar2(32767);
4    v_frm   varchar2(32767);
5    v_sql   varchar2(32767);
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BASIS_VERSION                                      NUMBER(9)
FGR_NR                                             NUMBER(5)
FGR_TEXT                                           VARCHAR2(40)
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