Re: Carrage Returns \ Line Breaks!

From: "Brett W(dot) McCoy" <bmccoy(at)chapelperilous(dot)net>
To: "Brian C(dot) Doyle" <bcdoyle(at)mindspring(dot)com>
Cc: <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Carrage Returns \ Line Breaks!
Date: 2000-12-18 16:52:19
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.30.0012181150330.9979-100000@chapelperilous.net
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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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