[Info-ingres] Loading a file with embedded commas

twenty-six at b-mint.net twenty-six at b-mint.net
Mon Dec 15 09:46:22 UTC 2014


I have a file with records that look like this:

"key1","key2","varchar data, containing commas.","16-dec-2014"
etc.


I want to load this into a Ingres table,  but without the double quotes 
surrounding each data value.   The 3rd field is some varchar text which 
contains commas.

I don't think the native Ingres copy statement will be able to strip the 
double quotes?   What's my best option?  This is on a linux box so I 
have the full range of commandline tools available.

Somehow replace the commas outside the quotes with tabs, then remove all 
the double quotes then load the resulting  tab separated file?

Thanks.



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