Govind Shridhare wrote:
>
> Hi Folks
> Good morning.
> This is a revised repost.
> I am having this strange insert problem with my Perl and DBI scripts
> interfacing with MySQL.
>
> Here is the scoop.
> I have a tab delimited file consisting of several rows of data. Each row has
> a field called "content" with a file name which causes my script to read
> that file insert all the text in a database table.
> So for example, I might have 50 tab delimited rows in my data file.
>
> When I am going through my loop trying to data into the table, the insert
> operation seems to be sensitive to the order of rows in my data file that I
> am reading! Sometimes The rows are not inserted and if I move those rows up
> in the order in my data file (like number 1 or 2), they seem to work!
>
> Example
>
> id content
> 1 test.htm
> 2 test2.htm
> 3 test3.htm
> ...
> 50 test30.htm
>
> Now somehow test12.htm may not get inserted but if I move it up then it
> works!
>
> I know I must be missing something...
> Any suggestions are really appreciated.
>
> Thanks a lot.
Hi Govind
As you read additional files in one of your columns, there is perhaps a permission problem
with these files.
Or you haven't escaped any special characters like <TAB> in these files.
Hope this helps
Christian
