Re: Carrage Returns \ Line Breaks!

From: "Brian C(dot) Doyle" <bcdoyle(at)mindspring(dot)com>
To: "Brett W(dot) McCoy" <bmccoy(at)chapelperilous(dot)net>
Cc: <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Carrage Returns \ Line Breaks!
Date: 2000-12-18 17:01:29
Message-ID: 5.0.2.1.2.20001218115343.06c99e20@pop.mindspring.com
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Okay now I am an Idoit. How do I tell what is used for the carriage
return? I know how to make the replacement I just can not tell they
characters used.

At 11:52 AM 12/18/00 -0500, Brett W. McCoy wrote:
>On Mon, 18 Dec 2000, Brian C. Doyle wrote:
>
> > I have a file that I am trying to import/copy into a table. The problem
> > that I am having is that there are carriage returns through out the
> > document. These carriage returns should be copied into the column it
> > belongs to yet during the
> > copy table from '/home/location/file.ext' using delimiters '|';
> >
> > I get errors when it hits the carriage return. Can i get around this?
>
>You should convert the carriage returns into the literal text '\n'. Are
>they ^J or ^M?
>
>-- Brett
> http://www.chapelperilous.net/~bmccoy/
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