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Chris Saxon

Thanks for the question, Wayne.

Asked: March 07, 2017 - 8:00 pm UTC

Last updated: March 09, 2017 - 1:52 pm UTC

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I need to make a shuttle that lists files in a specified directory. The user could choose what ones they wanted to process. When they press GO there would be a list of files to process.
Is there an example of this that I could look at? Thanks.
Apex 4.2
Oracle 11g

and Connor said...

Adrian Billington wrote up a great article on using external tables to create a tool to list the files in a directory using a simple select statement.

http://www.oracle-developer.net/display.php?id=513

You can do that, and then all Apex needs to do is query that table

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This is a follow-up question

Wayne McKinstry, March 09, 2017 - 1:49 pm UTC

I forgot to ask: Does this work for loading files from the client PC? Thanks
Chris Saxon
March 09, 2017 - 1:52 pm UTC

No. It's reading files from the database server.
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