At 21:57 -0500 1/30/02, edesousa@stripped wrote:
>I found out why my LOAD DATA INFILE did not work.
>
>The editor I was using translated the tabs I entered to spaces.
>That's why my load data infile didn't work!
>I used the following command to load the data successfully:
>
>load data infile "test.dat" replace into table persons fields
>terminated by ' ' terminated by '\r\n';
>
>The fields terminated argument in the load command is actually a
>single space - I changed my file to have
>one single space between the ID-number and the Name instead of a
>tab. I have to specify that the lines are
>terminated by '\r\n' since I'm running under Windows. The default is
>'\n'. I'm not familiar with Windows -
>didn't know that the tabs I was entering would be translated.
>
>Finally got it after trial and error. I wish there were more
>examples and detail in the manual on this
>topic.
Well ...
I sympathize with the problem that you've encountered, but it's not
LOAD DATA that is at fault here. Another program mangled your file
without telling you.
sql,query
