In the last episode (Nov 17), John Kopanas said: > On 11/17/06, Dan Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >In the last episode (Nov 17), John Kopanas said: > >> 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? > > > >Create a table that matches your layout exactly, then > > > >LOAD DATA ... > >FIELDS TERMINATED BY '' > >FIELDS ENCLOSED BY ''; > > > >It's mentioned in one of the comments at > >http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/load-data.html > > I am trying to figure out how this would work? How does LOAD DATA > figure out when one column begins and another ends when some of the > data are addresses with spaces in them?
It goes by the field widths in the table you're loading into. So set it up like: id VARCHAR(10), name VARCHAR(38), company_name VARCHAR(49), etc. If you've got any numeric fields, you'll probably have to make them varchars now, then convert them to numbers with an ALTER TABLE later (unless your fields happen to hit the magic widths listed at http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/load-data.html ). Actually, using DECIMAL fields should work, since you can specify their widths. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
