Re: How to insert a string with '/' using COPY command from a text file

On Thursday 10 Apr 2003 11:32 am, shreedhar wrote:
> Hello All
>
>
>  tblTemp (
> catalogid INTEGER NOT NULL DEFAULT 0,
> DirPath Varchar(250) NOT NULL DEFAULT '',
> TypeName VARCHAR(100)  NOT NULL DEFAULT '',
> size FLOAT NOT  NULL DEFAULT 0,
> filedate datetime NOT NULL
> ) ;
>
> Input text file
> 10|cdrom\games\themes\newyears1.zip|WinZip File (Folder)|729990|11/24/2001
> 01:41:32 AM
>
> If I directly use Copy command
>
> 1) data is storing in table as following
>
> catalogid     dirpath                                        typename
>           size                    filedate 10
> cdromgamesthemesnewyears1.zip         WinZip File            729990
> 2001-11-24 01:41:32

You probably want to escape the backslashes, so you have something like:

10|cdrom\\games\\themes\\newyears1.zip...

In your examples you seem to be using / (forward slash) rather than \
(back-slash). Some codes that might get you:

\t    tab
\r    carriage-return
\n    newline

So - anywhere you have backslash in your input make sure you double it.

--
  Richard Huxton