Re: copy - fields enclosed by, ignore x lines

Use python's (or another language) CSV reader module which will parse the
quotes for you and write the values in a tab-delimited file. Don't forget
to escape the tabs in the strings... it should be less than 10 lines of
code.

On Mon, 25 Oct 2004 14:45:57 -0700 (PDT), CSN
<cool_screen_name90001(at)yahoo(dot)com> wrote:

> Any chance of changing \copy and COPY to allow
> specifying what the fields are enclosed by (such as
> quotes) and to ignore the first x number of lines? I
> have data like below and don't know of an easy way to
> finesse it for importing (a simple regexp would remove
> quotes, but I just got tripped up on commas *within*
> values).
>
> "field1","field2","field3"
> "val1","val2","val3"
>
>
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