Hi, You could use the stream record format, specifying a record seperator. see http://download-uk.oracle.com/docs/cd/B10501_01/server.920/a96652/ch03.htm for an example. load data infile 'example.dat' "str '|\n'" into table example fields terminated by ',' optionally enclosed by '"' (col1 char(5), col2 char(7)) example.dat: hello,world,| james,bond,| You'll have to adjust your flatfiles to include a specific record seperator tho ... Works from 8.1.6 and above (if I'm not mistaken) cheers, Kurt At 17:23 24/08/2006 -0400, Mindaugas Navickas wrote: >Hi, > >May be somebody faced this issue before and knows how to solve that. > >We have a CSV file where text fields enclosed witrh ("). The issue is that text >fields might contain \n (new line - 0x10) character which is treated by >SQLLoader as record terminator. Is it any way to tell loader that \n when met >after opening apostropha to be treated as part of field and not as record >terminator. Here is sample data (note the first line - bbb\nbbbshould be part >of the same field: > >111,"aaaa","bbb >bbb","ccc" >222,"xxxx","yyy", >333,"ffff","ggg","hhhh" > >Thank you > >Mindaugas Navickas >OCP DBA > > >__________________________________________________ >Do You Yahoo!? >Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around >http://mail.yahoo.com >-- >//www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > > -- Kurt Van Meerbeeck kurtvm@xxxxxxxxxx kurt_van_meerbeeck@xxxxxx dude@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.ora600.org Imagination is more important than knowledge... -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l