At 17:04 +0200 3/7/00, <sinisa@stripped> wrote:
>Marc Antony Vose writes:
> > a really silly question, but...
> >
> > how best to get a bunch of data from an excel spreadsheet into mysql?
> >
> > some of the fields contain return characters, which sort of screw up
> > a save as text dump.
> >
> > is there some secret to this or is just massaging the text file the
> > best way to import?
> >
>
>
>Hi!
>
>You can export data from Excel in <tab> delimited file.
>
>If some field contains return chars, try using some other token for
>end-of-line token for LOAD DATA.
>
am i missing something here? how can i tell which end of line
characters to convert to another token? i've got hundreds of entries
here; far too many to do by hand.
is there any more sophisticated way to extract the text from excel
where i can specify the delimiters i want?
Marc Antony Vose
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