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copy - fields enclosed by, ignore x lines

From
CSN
Date:
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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Re: copy - fields enclosed by, ignore x lines

From
CSN
Date:
Ah, looks like "enclosed by" will be in PG 8 :). Is
"QUOTE [ AS ] 'quote'" for the "enclosed by"
character?

Ignore x lines would be nice, but not as big of a
deal.

http://developer.postgresql.org/docs/postgres/sql-copy.html



--- CSN <cool_screen_name90001@yahoo.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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Re: copy - fields enclosed by, ignore x lines

From
Pierre-Frédéric Caillaud
Date:
    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@yahoo.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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