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Hello Experts,
I have a below code from where I want to convert .xls file to .csv file and load the data into pl/sql tables but I am not able to perform it.
Could you please help to get this done?
Code:
CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION LOAD_CSV ( p_table in varchar2,
 p_dir in varchar2 DEFAULT 'ORA_DIR' ,
 P_FILENAME in varchar2,
 p_ignore_headerlines IN INTEGER DEFAULT 1,
 p_delimiter in varchar2 default ',',
 p_optional_enclosed in varchar2 default '"' )
 return number
 is
 l_input utl_file.file_type;
 l_theCursor integer default dbms_sql.open_cursor;
 l_lastLine varchar2(4000);
 l_cnames varchar2(4000);
 l_bindvars varchar2(4000);
 l_status integer;
 l_cnt number default 0;
 l_rowCount number default 0;
 l_sep char(1) default NULL;
 L_ERRMSG varchar2(4000);
 V_EOF BOOLEAN := false;
 l_filename varchar2(500) := P_FILENAME||'.csv';
 
 begin
 
 utl_file.frename ('ORA_DIR',P_FILENAME,'ORA_DIR',l_FILENAME,TRUE);
 
 l_cnt := 1;
 for TAB_COLUMNS in (
 select column_name, data_type from user_tab_columns where upper(table_name) = upper(p_table) order by column_id
 ) loop
 l_cnames := l_cnames || tab_columns.column_name || ',';
 l_bindvars := l_bindvars || case when tab_columns.data_type in ('DATE', 'TIMESTAMP(6)') then 'to_date(:b' || l_cnt || ',"dd-mon-yyyy hh24:mi:ss"),' else ':b'|| l_cnt || ',' end;
 
 l_cnt := l_cnt + 1;
 end loop;
 l_cnames := rtrim(l_cnames,',');
 L_BINDVARS := RTRIM(L_BINDVARS,',');
 
 --L_INPUT := UTL_FILE.FOPEN( P_DIR, P_FILENAME, 'r',5000);
 L_INPUT := UTL_FILE.FOPEN( P_DIR, l_FILENAME, 'r',5000);
 IF p_ignore_headerlines > 0
 THEN
 BEGIN
 FOR i IN 1 .. p_ignore_headerlines
 LOOP
 UTL_FILE.get_line(l_input, l_lastLine);
 END LOOP;
 EXCEPTION
 WHEN NO_DATA_FOUND
 THEN
 v_eof := TRUE;
 end;
 END IF;
 
 if not v_eof then
 dbms_sql.parse( l_theCursor, 'insert into ' || p_table || '(' || l_cnames || ') values (' || l_bindvars || ')', dbms_sql.native );
 
 loop
 begin
 utl_file.get_line( l_input, l_lastLine );
 exception
 when NO_DATA_FOUND then
 exit;
 end;
 
 if length(l_lastLine) > 0 then
 for i in 1 .. l_cnt-1
 LOOP
 
 dbms_sql.bind_variable( l_theCursor, ':b'||i,
 rtrim(rtrim(ltrim(ltrim(
 REGEXP_SUBSTR(l_lastline,'(^|,)("[^"]*"|[^",]*)',1,i),p_delimiter),p_optional_enclosed),p_delimiter),p_optional_enclosed));
 end loop;
 begin
 l_status := dbms_sql.execute(l_theCursor);
 l_rowCount := l_rowCount + 1;
 exception
 when OTHERS then
 L_ERRMSG := SQLERRM;
 insert into BADLOG ( TABLE_NAME, ERRM, data, ERROR_DATE )
 values ( P_TABLE,l_errmsg, l_lastLine ,to_date(sysdate,'dd-mon-yyyy hh24:mi:ss') );
 commit;
 end;
 end if;
 end loop;
 
 dbms_sql.close_cursor(l_theCursor);
 utl_file.fclose( l_input );
 commit;
 end if;
 --insert into IMPORT_HIST (FILENAME,TABLE_NAME,NUM_OF_REC,IMPORT_DATE)
 --values ( P_FILENAME, P_TABLE,l_rowCount,sysdate );
 
 insert into IMPORT_HIST (FILENAME,TABLE_NAME,NUM_OF_REC,IMPORT_DATE)
 values ( l_FILENAME, P_TABLE,l_rowCount,sysdate );
 
 commit;
 RETURN L_ROWCOUNT;
 dbms_output.put_line ('Total Records: '||L_ROWCOUNT);
 end LOAD_CSV;
----------Wrapper to test above code----------------------------
DECLARE
 p_table VARCHAR2(200) := 'temp_part';
 p_dir VARCHAR2(200) := 'ORA_DIR';
 p_filename VARCHAR2(200) := 'b.xls';
 p_ignore_headerlines integer := 1;
 p_delimiter varchar2(2) := ',';
 p_optional_enclosed varchar2(2) := '"';
 v_return NUMBER;
BEGIN
 v_return := LOAD_CSV(p_table => p_table
 ,p_dir => p_dir
 ,p_filename => p_filename
 ,p_ignore_headerlines => p_ignore_headerlines
 ,p_delimiter => p_delimiter
 ,p_optional_enclosed => p_optional_enclosed);
 
 dbms_output.put_line('v_return = ' || v_return);
END;
Thanks,
Ankit. 
and Connor said...
If I rename an image file (asktom.jpeg) then it doesn't becomes a word document does it.  Similarly, simply renaming a file from XLS to CSV doesnt make it a comma separated file.
The file you want to load needs to be a CSV *formatted* file.
Alternatively, perhaps consider an alternative approach  
https://github.com/mbleron/oracle/tree/master/ExcelTable