Hi ..
Mysql's LOAD DATA INFILE will take newline character as the lines'
terminating character, but you can always change by "LINES TERMINATED BY"
clause. So, say you have | character as the line ending character in your
text file, you can just add LINES TERMINATED BY '|' clause  to your LOAD
DATA INFILE syntax. See: http://www.mysql.com/doc/L/O/LOAD_DATA.html

If you need to change some characters in the text file before loading it
into the database just vi the file and make the necessaray changes thru
global search/replace .


Gurhan


-----Original Message-----
From: Tim Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, April 15, 2002 7:09 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Handling Memo Fields from MS-Access?


Hello All:
    I am using mysql 3.23 on Linux. I have a project in
    what I will need to do the following:
    First: export a MS-Access database to a set of
      delimited text files, one for each table.
    Secondly: Load each of those text files into a MySql Table.

    Since I am new to MySql, I am posing this question?
    Exporting a Ms-Access Memo field (which can contain newline/carriage
returns)
    to a text file will mess up the structure of the delimited file.
      In other case, I have used VBA to convert line endings to another
character,
      (ctrl-B or Ascii 2, as an example)

      Is there a way that I can use a newline substitute for export that
      can then be converted back to the original newline when mysql loads
      the text file?

      TIA
      Regards
--
Tim Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
      http://www.alaska-internet-solutions.com
      http://www.johnsons-web.com

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