SQLLDR Problem in converting a date column having spaces

Hi,
I am trying to load some data from Digtal Alpha Server (VMS OS). Sequential file is created using COBOL. A column which is holding some dates 'yyyymmdd' also can have spaces in it as we are moving spaces with cobol command 'MOVE SPACES TO FIELD_NAME'.
I have mentioned NULLIF field_name=BLANKS "to_date(field_name,'yyyymmdd')"
but it does not recognize BLAKNS as it gives error like
Record 588: Rejected - Error on table BASIC_INFO.
ORA-01841: (full) year must be between -4713 and +9999, and not be 0
i edited the sequential file in windows word pad and just saved it to get rid of soem operating system specific formating things 'i have no idea about these as wordpad told me about that :('
and when i tried tried again loading it worked fine as it replaced blanks with null.
any idea what should i do in order to load data in one go.
thanks
nadeem

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