SQL*LOADER VARRAY SQL

Question

Hi,
following case of a ctl-file:
LOAD DATA
APPEND
INTO TABLE IFC_A_T01
TRAILING NULLCOLS
ID                    SEQUENCE,
SKZ POSITION(1:1) TERMINATED BY '$' "RTRIM(LTRIM(:SKZ,' '),' ')",
sub object
FKZ VARRAY TERMINATED BY '$' (
FKZ COLUMN OBJECT (
GS POSITION(1:5) "RTRIM(FKZ.FKZ.GS,' ')",
FZ POSITION(6:10),
FN POSITION(11:14),
FF POSITION(15:17)
SQL*Loader-350: Syntax error at line 11.
Expecting valid column specification, "," or ")", found "LTRIM(:"FKZ.FKZ.GS",' ')".
KZ.GS\",' ')" ,
FZ
What is the Problem with Line 11??
--> GS POSITION(1:5) "RTRIM(FKZ.FKZ.GS,' ')",
I don't care about using that syntax, but i really think so, because GS POSITION(1:5) NULLIF FKZ.FKZ.GS=BLANKS works fine...
thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Hi,
I'm not 100% sure that's possible to do.
sorry that's possible (with some restrictions):
http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B12037_01/server.101/b10825/ldr_loading.htm#i1007180
however another alternative would be to create an external table pointing on your file and then do an insert as select?
here is an example (this can be done with multiple levels):
CREATE OR REPLACE TYPE xtest_Type1 AS OBJECT(
   AGE   NUMBER(3),
   NAME  VARCHAR2(14)
CREATE OR REPLACE TYPE xtest_Type2 AS VARRAY(10) OF xtest_Type1;
CREATE TABLE xtest(col1 NUMBER,col2 xtest_Type2)
insert into xtest
with testdata as(
select 1 col1,10 age1,'name1' name1 from dual union all
select 2 col1,20 age1,'name2' name1 from dual union all
select 1 col1,30 age1,'name3' name1 from dual union all
select 2 col1,10 age1,'name1' name1 from dual union all
select 2 col1,40 age1,'name4' name1 from dual)
SELECT   col1,
         CAST(COLLECT(xtest_Type1(age1, name1)) AS xtest_Type2) col2
FROM     testdata
GROUP BY col1... remove the with clause and replace "testdata" with your external table name..
Edited by: user11268895 on Aug 30, 2010 3:07 PM