Re: importing tab delimited, text enclosed by "

Andrew Gould wrote:
>
> I have a file of data that is tab delimited, with text
> fields enclosed by quotation marks.
>
> I know I can use the copy command to load the data;
> and that tab delimited is the default. How do I tell
> Postgres to remove the quotation marks?

It is probably easiest to remove the quote with a script
(like the following perl program).

while(<>){
chop;
@a = split(/\t/,$_);
@a = map { s/^"(.*)"$/$1/; $_; } @a;
printf "%s\n", join("\t",@a);
}

Regards,
Mit freundlichem Gruß,
Holger Klawitter
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