I did a little shell script to do it. the key was the shell variable IFS:
Normally IFS=" " to make it work right I set it as follows: IFS=" " Yes, thats a newline between the quotes John Kopanas wrote:
I have a text file with over 500K rows of data in it. The problem is that the data is no seperated by commas but instead occupy a certain amount of characters. So for instance: ID 1 -11 NAME 12-50 COMPANY_NAME 51-100 ... How would you parse import this data into mysql? Thanks for your help :-).
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