SQL LOADER - How to combine 3 rows into 1

Question

Hi,
I have an input file composed of 4 different data types in 4 rows.
line1 has fld1 text(100)
line2 has fld2 number(4)
line3 has fld3 date(10) "mm/dd/yyyy"
line4 has fld4 date(10) "mm/dd/yyyy"
all line has data in it.
This is my control file:
LOAD DATA
INFILE "fileA.txt"
truncate
CONCATENATE 4
INTO TABLE ps_vz_ppc_blng_aud
TRAILING NULLCOLS
( text_fld CHAR(100) TERMINATED BY WHITESPACE
,num_fld INTEGER EXTERNAL(4)
TERMINATED BY WHITESPACE
,begin_date DATE(10) "mm/dd/yyyy"
TERMINATED BY WHITESPACE
,end_date DATE(10) "mm/dd/yyyy"
TERMINATED BY WHITESPACE
,row_added_dttm     sysdate
,row_added_oprid "USER"
My error: cannot insert null into num_fld.
What did I do wrong? Terminated by whitespace did not end when the line end? Or the first field needs to be 100 characters and ends with end of line?

Answer 1

That means the structure of your data is now something like:
line1|1|01/01/2001|02/01/2001
line2|2|01/01/2002|02/01/2002If so, you can use the following control file
LOAD DATA
INFILE "fileA.txt"
truncate
INTO TABLE ps_vz_ppc_blng_aud
FIELDS TERMINATED BY "|" OPTIONALLY ENCLOSED BY '"'
( text_fld        char
, num_fld         integer external
, begin_date      DATE "mm/dd/yyyy"
, end_date        DATE "mm/dd/yyyy"
, row_added_dttm  sysdate
, row_added_oprid EXPRESSION "USER"
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