I mentioned a while back that .import can be made to work with flexible number columns by setting a mode that says 'ignore column error on import'. The idea is that SQLite can import from csv files where the number of columns is not known.
I looked that the code for import. If there was a column mismatch, the code would simply leave the unused columns with the '?' symbol, and otherwise have no effect, nor would it be in any data input path. Old applications which detect number column error would not be impacted, since they do not set the ignore errors on input mode. New code could take advantage of swallowing csv files regardless of the number of columns. Great for searching through arbitrary spread sheet output, I suspect lot of applications for this. _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@sqlite.org http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
