Warren,
Yes, you are right! I removed 'col_names' and the script still
worked.
Regards,
Stacy.
> Hello All,
>
> I was able to get the script to work by explicitly adding a record
> separator ('^M' in vi) at the end of each line - didn't have to define
> the column names. I got here by creating a table and seeing what was in
> it. I had a large tab-delimited file (from star-office spreadsheet)
> which for which Stacy's script produced the same no-output result -
> adding '^M' to the end of each line fixed that problem.
>
> Stacy, it may be that explicitly defining '\n' as your EOL char is what
> fixed your problem.
>
> Regards,
>
> Warren
>