copy - fields enclosed by, ignore x lines

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Subject: copy - fields enclosed by, ignore x lines
Date: 2004-10-25 21:45:57
Message-ID: 20041025214557.24808.qmail@web52907.mail.yahoo.com
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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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