Uploading a flat file into Oracle

Question

Hello guys
Can somebody please help me. I've got a flat file that i want to read into oracle via UTL Package. I can read the file successfully if I manually replace the dots with underscores. But when I receive the file, before I upload it into Oracle, it comes in with dots on the file name. eg. The file looks like this: 'IS.DIM16.EFTS.GG24.INTAUD.TEST_20090219105728' then I have to manually replace the dots with underscores to make the file look like this: 'IS_DIM16_EFTS_GG24_INTAUD.TEST_20090219105728'.
I don't want to change it manually. Is there a way to replace the dots with underscores before I read the file? Or is the a way to make Oracle read the dots? I've tried uploading the file with the dots but it gives me this error:
ORA-29283: invalid file operation.
Your help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks

Answer 1

When i try this, i don't get any error. Can you be more specific ? Code , Expample , OS, version ....
DECLARE
v_handle utl_file.file_type;
BEGIN
v_handle:= utl_file.fopen ('/enspac03/output/ao/in','IS.DIM16.EFTS.GG24.INTAUD.TEST_20090219105728','r');
dbms_output.put_line ('Open');
utl_file.fclose(v_handle);
END;