TEXT_IO package...

Is there any restriction on the length of record that can be read from text file using text_io package. I want to read a text file that has number of records with length upto 20000 char. I'm putting this data into a table which has 4 columns of varchar2(4000).
will this work properly?
thanks much
---himanshu

Check each line of the file for a ','. The heading line will not
have any. Only insert data from lines that contain a ','.

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