Mark Nienberg wrote:
I'm trying to use LOAD DATA INFILE to read a csv formatted file into a
mysql 5.0.22 table. Some of the fields contain text that has newline
characters in it. After reading the manual to learn how special
characters are treated, I altered the csv file so newlines are
represented by '\\n', that is two backslashes followed by a lowercase n.
After loading the file, I find that the text fields do indeed contain
'\n' as I hoped (one of the backslashes was stripped during import).
But for some reason these newlines aren't treated as such by mysql or
php. For example, the php function nl2br does not recognize and
substitute them.
I have other similar tables in the same database that I successfully
constructed using the same method, but that was with a previous version
of mysql (4.something). Something is different now.
The command I used was:
mysql> load data infile '/share/store/library.csv' into table library
fields terminated by ','
enclosed by '"'
lines terminated by '\r\n';
Any help appreciated.
Mark
You need to quote the actual linefeed character, not a backslash n.
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Gerald L. Clark
Supplier Systems Corporation
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