Re: Importing data from csv

A newline in CSV parlance denotes the end of a record....unless that
newline is contained with quotes...

Phillip Smith wrote:
>
> I recently did this by parsing the data through a VB program that
> appended a "\" in front of any Char(10) and/or Char(13) characters
> which tells Postgres to accept the next character as a literal part of
> the column value I believe -- must do because it worked! I also quoted
> the whole column as part of the VB prog...
>
>
>
> Worked for me but I'm not sure the exact science behind it so someone
> else might be able to be of some more detailed help.
>
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> -p
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> *From:* pgsql-sql-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org
> [mailto:pgsql-sql-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org] *On Behalf Of *Sumeet
> *Sent:* Friday, 25 August 2006 00:48
> *To:* pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org
> *Subject:* [SQL] Importing data from csv
>
>
>
> Hi Folks,
>
> sorry if this is a duplicate post, i've been tryin to find a solution
> of importing data into postgres from a csv file. The problem is, I
> have a database which consists of columns which contain newline
> characters (mac and unix). now when i export these files to a csv
> format, there are some line breaks (mixed unix and mac) in the data
> which breaks the copy procedure.
>
> I also tried using the script posted in one of the previous posts..
>
> #! /usr/bin/perl
> $inquotes = 0;
> while (<>){
> # Chop the crlf
> chop ($_);
> chop ($_);
>
> # this first bit goes through and replaces
> # all the commas that re not in quotes with tildes
> for ($i=0 ; $i < length($_) ; $i++){
> $char=substr($_,$i,1);
> if ($char eq '"' ){
> $inquotes = not($inquotes);
> }else{
> if ( (!$inquotes) && ($char eq ",") ){
> substr($_,$i,1)="~";
> }
> }
> }
> # this replaces any quotes
> s/"//g;
> print "$_\n";
> }
>
>
> cat data_file | perl scriptname.pl > outputfile.dat
>
> and when i run the copy command i get messages like data missing for
> xyz column.
> any possible hints.......
>
> --
> Thanks,
> Sumeet
>
>
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