LOAD DATA INFILE fields terminated by

Question

I have searched through this forum but I didn't find anything related to this particular problem I'm facing with. Namely, I have a text file which I want to transfer to MySQL db, I'm using PHP for scripting.

What I want to know is can I by any chance use multiple delimiters in the FIELDS TERMINATED BY parameter:

LOAD DATA INFILE '$file'

INTO TABLE $my_table

FIELDS TERMINATED BY ';'

LINES TERMINATED BY '\\r\\n'";

My text file looks like this:

11;111111;;1111111;;;;;;1111;;;;11111;;1111111111;111111111;;;111; .....

So, by only using ';' as the delimiter I don't get the wanted results, eg in some db fields I am getting data like ;;1111; - normally there should be only numbers.

Is there any way to make all the semicolons act as a delimiter?

Answer 1

Your input txt file is not in proper format.

You can find and replace ;; with ; in text editor and then try loading data again into table.

Repeat this find and replace process two times to convert all semicolons to one.

Answer 2

\\N between the delimiters in the data file. This marks the field as null when sql loads it.