Sqlloader -350 illegal combination of non alphanumeric character

hi all,
i'm using owb 10.2.0.1
i have a file in my D:\2122008.txt and a table in oracle DB
created a map from file to table.....
generated a code and saved in D:\orahome_1\owb\codegen\ctl\Employee.ctl
deployed in target database...
when is start from OWB i get the following error
RPE-01013: SQL Loader reported error condition, number 1.
SQL*Loader: Release 10.2.0.1.0 - Production on Thu Mar 6 17:50:01 2008
Copyright (c) 1982, 2005, Oracle. All rights reserved.
SQL*Loader-500: Unable to open file (d:\EMPLOYEE.ctl)
SQL*Loader-553: file not found
SQL*Loader-509: System error: The system cannot find the file specified.
so i planned to run by invoking sql*loader..
this is the generated code
OPTIONS (BINDSIZE=50000,ERRORS=50,ROWS=200,DIRECT=TRUE,READSIZE=65536,FILE='F_21022008_TXT')
CONTINUE_LOAD DATA
CHARACTERSET WE8MSWIN1252
INFILE '{{FILE_EMP_LOCATION1.RootPath}}{{}}21022008_TXT'
DISCARDMAX 0
CONCATENATE 1
INTO TABLE "DMT_ADMIN"."AZBJ_ONEEMPLOYEE_DATABASE"@"dwhtest"
APPEND
REENABLE DISABLED_CONSTRAINTS
FIELDS TERMINATED BY X'09' OPTIONALLY ENCLOSED BY 'X' SKIP 0
"REC_SRNO" POSITION(1) INTEGER EXTERNAL ,
"EMPLOYEENUMBER" INTEGER EXTERNAL ,
"EMPLOYEENAME" CHAR ,
"EMPDOB" CHAR ,
"GENDER" CHAR ,
"DEPARTMENT" CHAR ,
"DESIGNATION" CHAR ,
"OPUSCODE" CHAR ,
"BRANCHCODE" CHAR ,
"OFFICEMAIL" CHAR ,
when i execute in sqlldr it is openeing the ctl file but gives the following error
sql*loader-350: syntax error at line 21
illegal combination of non-alphanumeric characters
INTO TABLE "DMT_ADMIN"."AZBJ_ONEEMPLOYEE_DATABASE"@"dwhtest"
the error is comming at the symbal "@"
tried out several ways but could'nt resolve the prob
anyone out there to help me....

shld i need to keep the source files where OWB server is installed or can i run the process by keeping the files in my client systems local directory?

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The real password is saved in a second string control.
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>blob field on a mysql db.
> During the conversion some characters my not be
recognised. When i then call
>up the blob for display on the browser...those characters
show up as unknown
>characters with a ? or box. Is there a way to
preg_replace those unknown
>characters before displaying them.
What about fixing the encoding problem instead? If chars get
lost during
such a transfer
document->script->database->script->browser it's always
an encoding problem somewhere down the road.
The recommendation these days is to use UTF-8, which avoids
most of
these old problems. You just have to make sure that your
documents are
properly stored as UTF-8 in the database and delivered as
such to the
script and the browser, then you don't have to worry about
special chars
anymore.
That's just the general idea. I can't be more specific, since
I don't
know your conversion script or the database structure.
Micha

Getting a request in a non English character

Hi ,
In an attempt to solve a problem of getting a request in a non English character , i use the code , taken from O'Reilly's "Java Servlet programing" First edition:
import javax.servlet.*;
import javax.servlet.http.*;
import java.io.*;
public class MyServlet extends HttpServlet {
     public void doGet(HttpServletRequest req, HttpServletResponse res)
                                                                           throws ServletException, IOException {
          try {
                                                  //set encoding of request and responce
     req.setCharacterEncoding("Cp1255"); //for hebrew windows
     res.setCharacterEncoding("Cp1255");
     res.setContentType("Text/html; Cp1255");
     String value = req.getParameter("param");
                                                  // Now convert it from an array of bytes to an array of characters.
     // Here we bother to read only the first line.
                                                  BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(
     new InputStreamReader(new StringBufferInputStream(value), "Cp1255"));
                                                  String valueInUnicode = reader.readLine();
          }catch (Exception e) {
          e.printStackTrace();
this works fine , the only problem is that StringBufferInputStream is deprecated .
is there any other alternative for that ?
Thanks in advance
Yair

Hi Again ..
To get to the root of things , here is a servlet test and an http client test which demonstrates using the above patch and not using it :
The servlet :
import javax.servlet.*;
import javax.servlet.http.*;
import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import java.io.PrintWriter;
import java.io.StringBufferInputStream;
public class Hebrew2test extends HttpServlet {
     public void doGet(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response)
     throws ServletException, IOException {
          request.setCharacterEncoding("Cp1255");
          response.setCharacterEncoding("Cp1255");
          response.setContentType("Text/html; Cp1255");
          PrintWriter out = response.getWriter();
          String name = request.getParameter("name");
          //print without any patch
          out.println(name);
          //a try with patch 1 DEPRECATED
          out.println("patch 1:");
          BufferedReader reader =
          new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(new StringBufferInputStream(name), "cp1255"));
          String patch_name = reader.readLine();
          out.println(patch_name);
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          out.println("patch 2:");
          String valueInUnicode = new String(name.getBytes("Cp1255"), "UTF8");
          out.println(valueInUnicode);
and now for a test client :
import java.io.*;
import java.net.*;
public class HttpClient_cp1255 {
private static void printUsage() {
System.out.println("usage: java HttpClient host port");
public static void main(String[] args) {
if (args.length < 2) {
printUsage();
return;
// Host is the first parameter, port is the second
String host = args[0];
int port;
try {
port = Integer.parseInt(args[1]);
catch (NumberFormatException e) {
printUsage();
return;
try {
// Open a socket to the server
Socket s = new Socket(host, port);
// Start a thread to send reuest to the server
new Request_(s).start();
// Now print everything we receive from the socket
BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(s.getInputStream(),"cp1255"));
String line;
File f = new File("in.txt");
FileWriter out = new FileWriter(f);
while ((line = in.readLine()) != null) {
System.out.println(line);
out.write(line);
out.close();
     catch (Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
class Request_ extends Thread {
Socket s;
public Request_( Socket s) {
this.s = s;
setPriority(MIN_PRIORITY); // socket reads should have a higher priority
// Wish I could use a select() !
setDaemon(true); // let the app die even when this thread is running
public void run() {
try {
                    OutputStreamWriter server = new OutputStreamWriter(s.getOutputStream(),"cp1255");
                    //String query= "GET /userprofiles/hebrew2test?name=yair"; //yair in Englisg ..
                    String query= "GET /userprofiles/hebrew2test?name=\u05d9\u05d0\u05d9\u05e8"; //yair in hebrew - in unicode
               System.out.println("Connected... your HTTP request is sent");
                    System.out.println("------------------------------------------");
                    server.write(query);
                    server.write("\r\n"); // HTTP lines end with \r\n
                    server.flush();
                    System.out.println(server.getEncoding());
     server =      new OutputStreamWriter(new FileOutputStream("out.txt"),"cp1255");
                    server.write(query);
                    server.flush();
catch (Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();

How to validate for non-english character on a single line text field

In a "Single Line Text" field we would like to allow the users to enter alpha numeric values only. We should show error when the user enter non-English values like
carácter
Vijayaragavan, MCTS

Hi,
According to your post, my understanding is that you wanted to validate for non-english character on a single line text field.
I recommend to use jQuery to attach regular expression validation. Please refer to:
Using #jQuery to attach regular expression validation to a #SharePoint list form field
In addition, for custom validations you can create your own Types. Refer to
this[^] for creating custom field type
More information:
SharePoint Custom Field - Regex Validator
Thanks,
Linda Li
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