Re: Searching for an equivalent to the Oracle "POSITION" parameter

2004-11-12 Thread ACario
Shawn, Thanks a lot for this explanation. It works perfectly. Best, Adam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: While reading http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/LOAD_DATA.html I found this passage " If the FIELDS TERMINATED BY and FIELDS ENCLOSED BY values are both empty (''), a fixed-row (non-delimited) format

Searching for an equivalent to the Oracle "POSITION" parameter

2004-11-12 Thread ACario
Hi, I have a text file with fixed-width columns that I'd like to get loaded into a table. Against Oracle the script would be as follow: LOAD DATA INFILE 'myfile.data' append INTO TABLE MYTABLE ( FIELD1 POSITION(1:10), FIELD2 POSITION(11:20), FIELD3 POSITION(21:21), FIELD4 POSITION(22:40) ) Is th