George Pavlov wrote:
Did you try NULL AS ''?

yes i did. that is the default and does not change the outcome (same
errors about trying to insert an empty string into a numeric field.

Well there's your problem. Quotes tend to imply a text field. Assuming you don't want to write a short Perl script to pre-process the file the simplest way would be to import into a temporary table with text columns rather than numeric, then copy from that into the real table (with CASE or two queries).

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  Richard Huxton
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