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Copy Command Error

From

"Richard Sydney-Smith"

Date:

15 September 2003, 08:55:28

I am outputting the following rows from a SYBASE database on W2000

3 '2' 'IBISFinancials' 'A.C.N. 072 378 815'
8 'RK' 'Personal Accounts'

Using the command:

select cast(seq as integer) , id , cmpy, tr_n from fcont; output to d:\fcont.dat format 'ascii' delimited by '\x09'

This outputs the fields tab delimited and with strings encased in inverted commas

I then use the followin POSTRESQL command:

copy fcont (seq,id,cmpy,tr_n) from 'd:\\fcont.dat'

The problem is that each string is imported with the inverted commas.

eg field ID = ''RK'' instead of 'RK'

Can someone please help?

thanks

Richard

Re: Copy Command Error

From

Richard Huxton

Date:

15 September 2003, 10:02:23

On Monday 15 September 2003 09:57, Richard Sydney-Smith wrote:
> I am outputting the following rows from a SYBASE database on W2000

> The problem is that each string is imported with the inverted commas.
>
> eg field ID = ''RK'' instead of 'RK'
>
> Can someone please help?

A short bit of perl. Something like (untested)

perl -pi -e 's/\t"/\t/g' fcont.dat
perl -pi -e 's/"\t/\t/g' fcont.dat

That should pre-process the file. I'm sure someone else on the list will show 
how to do it in sed.

Hmm - just noticed you are on Windows. Not sure what cygwin ships with, or 
whether you have perl installed.
--  Richard Huxton Archonet Ltd