David looking at http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/LOAD_DATA.html Any of the field- or line-handling options can specify an empty string (''). If not empty, the FIELDS [OPTIONALLY] ENCLOSED BY and FIELDS ESCAPED BY values must be a single character. Addionally it is a good idea to say FIELDS TERMINATED BY ',' FIELDS ENCLOSED BY '"' LINES TERMINATED BY '\n' hth, Martin ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Blomstrom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, June 06, 2004 2:40 AM Subject: Comma Delimited Import Error
> I just discovered that one of my MySQL tables is > incomplete. I created it by importing a comma > delimited file I had made from a spreadsheet, but it > appears as many as 3,000 rows or so were missing. > > So I decided to give it another try. MySQL Front > refused to import it because of some sort of error I > haven't yet identified. Navicat imports it, logging > roughly 80 errors. > > When I view the finished table, many of the entries in > the first field are followed by ",. For example... > > al", > tx", > > Here are a few rows from the comma delimited file I > imported. Do you have a hunch what might be going on > here? > > Thanks. > > "gd","oat",239,,"Grenada","nat" > "gp","oat",240,,"Guadeloupe","dep" > "ht","oat",241,,"Haiti","nat" > "is","oat",242,,"Iceland","nat" > "jm","oat",243,,"Jamaica","nat" > > > > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Friends. Fun. Try the all-new Yahoo! Messenger. > http://messenger.yahoo.com/ > > -- > MySQL General Mailing List > For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql > To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
