title: how to tell sqlldr to trim trailing and leading whitespace
body: <p>I'm using sqlldr to load data in which some of the fields have trailing and leading whitespaces. Is there a way to to tell sqlldr to ignore these whitespaces other than by saying</p>
  
  <pre><code>field "trim(:field)"
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>?</p>