Re: Issue with copying data from a text file.

Maybe use char 254 or 253 or something similar... Anything that isn't
going to be found in the file.

Have you tried using a string as a delimiter? QUOTE
'THIS.STRING.ISNT.IN.THE.TEXT.FILE'

~p

On Tue, 2007-03-20 at 11:59 +0900, Paul Lambert wrote:

> Andrej Ricnik-Bay wrote:
> > On 3/20/07, Paul Lambert <paul(dot)lambert(at)autoledgers(dot)com(dot)au> wrote:
> >
> >> The source file comes from extracts on our main application which sits
> >> inside an in-house pretending-to-be-a-dbms file system. The content of
> >> these extracts would be difficult to change - the extract program would
> >> need to parse the data looking for quotes and preceed them with the
> >> necessary escape character.
> >>
> >> Not being a proper database dump it's not a simple matter of flicking a
> >> switch to get it to include the escape character. The way the extracts
> >> are written would require a few dozen lines of code to each extract, and
> >> theres about 40ish extracts.
> >>
> >> Plus I don't maintain that side of our code, and those that do can be a
> >> bit lazy and I'd likely be waiting months to get it done - if they even
> >> decide to do it.
> > Pipe it through sed and replace the Carets with TABS?
> > sed 's/^/\t/g' c:/temp/autodrs_deal_lines.txt >
> > c:/temp/autodrs_deal_lines.tab
> >
> > Then use copy like so:
> > \copy table from 'c:/temp/autodrs_deal_lines.tab' delimiter E'\t' null ''
> >
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Andrej
> >
> >
>
> The data contains tabs... don't ask why... I don't have a clue :P
>
> I'll do something along the lines of sed... but not with sed, I'll use
> the command line interpreter on the OpenVMS systems where the extracts
> run. I just thought there might have been a quicker way to switch it off
> in the copy command, i.e. specifying "quote none" as one of the
> parameters to the command. I guess not...
>
> Thanks for the pointers.
>
> P.
>

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