--- "John D. Tiedeman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I,m trying to import a 6-col. tab delimited table into a
> 6-field SQLite3 
> table:
>    .import busrides.txt rides
> Message: line 1: expected 6 columns of data but found 1
> I tried adding "delimiters tab" with no effectt then
> "delimited by tab". 
> Then I copied the first few lines into a new file,
> busridessc.txt and 
> replaced the tabs with semicolons and used the delimiter
> clause with 
> ";". Same message. Then I created a 1-col. table with a
> few dates in it 
> and successfully imported into a new 1-field SQL table. I
> never had this 
> problem with SQLite2. What do I have to do to get the
> delimiters 
> recognized as they were in the old COPY command?
> 

How about 

.separator "\t" 

to set the delimiter to a tab?

 -Clark


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