Thread: problems with copy

I'm getting lots of delimited files from Excel and MySQL users that,
mid-file, begin truncating lines if ending in null values.

for example:
1781: "one","two","three",,,,,,
1782: "one","two","three",,
1783: "one","two","three",,

(delimited files from Open Office are well behaved)

is there any way to handle this apparently standard aberration in PG?


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El Lun 24 Sep 2007 21:38, chester c young escribió:
> I'm getting lots of delimited files from Excel and MySQL users that,
> mid-file, begin truncating lines if ending in null values.
>
> for example:
> 1781: "one","two","three",,,,,,
> 1782: "one","two","three",,
> 1783: "one","two","three",,
>
> (delimited files from Open Office are well behaved)
>
> is there any way to handle this apparently standard aberration in PG?
>
You need to normalize the csv files filtering its contents with some script
...
...
$fields_in_table=9;
while (<>) {chomp;@f=split(",");for $i ( 0 .. $fields_in_table ) {   print $f[$i].",";};print "\n";
};
...
...

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Luis