Removing ”^M” from SQL*Loader datafile

You notice that you have extra ‘^M’ characters at the end of your records in your SQL*Loader datafile. You need to remove them so your load will work successfully.

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You can remove the ^M by doing the following: 

Bring the datafile into the Unix editor vi. In command mode you would type in: 

:1,$s/^V^M// 

Make sure you are entering ‘control V’ and ‘control M’. The ‘control V’ says to accept the next character exactly as I type it. Adding the two slashes at the end of the command says to subsitute the ^M with null.

 The extra ^M characters are most likely due to moving the file from one platform to another. The carriage returns or end-of-line commands are sometimes interpreted differently. 

You can see this if you move a file from a PC to a UNIX system or if you copy a file from one system through a gateway to a different system.