Inserting Using RowType

Is it possible to INSERT data into a table using a rowtype data type? I
have a long (~5000 byte, 300 field) record *which I did not design* that
needs to be loaded into a table. In my plsql function I accept a line
from a data file. I have declared a ib837 variable to be of
my_table%rowtype and go about assigning each field to the ib837 record
using substr on the input field (yes, that's 329 rows, sigh). What I
would then like to do is:

INSERT INTO my_table ib837;

Where the ib837 is of type my_table%rowtype. Is this possible? Is
there another -- easier/better -- way to load these record into the
table? The input record is fixed-width, though it does not contain all
of the fields in the table (I add a timestamp and an id column).

Thanks for your help,
--greg

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