Re: Is this a typo or what!

[Paul DuBois]

At 9:31 PM -0400 08/19/2000, Floyd Baker wrote:
>Hello..
>
>I see the following several places in books and online but I don't 
>know what to
>make of it. 
>
>[FIELDS
>     [TERMINATED BY 'string']
>     [OPTIONALLY] ENCLOSED BY 'char']
>     [ESCAPED BY 'char']]
>[LINES TERMINATED BY 'string']
>
>Is there or is there not an extra bracket?
>Or, don't I understand the syntax methods.

I guess it's the latter.

The second bracket at the end of the fourth line (which is the extra
bracket I assume you're referring to) is matched by the opening bracket
at the beginning of the first line.  That is, the FIELDS clause is
optional, and it has three subclauses, which are themselves optional.
(This is actually not *quite* true - any of the three are optional,
except that at least one must be present.

Is that what you're asking?

-- 
Paul DuBois, paul@stripped