Check the server's query log to see what statement actually is arriving on
the server side.
Also, you say you get a malformed SQL syntax error. What's the exact
message you get?
On 5/11/06 8:02, "Mark Galbreath" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Tim,
>
> I've tried every imaginable option: single quotes, double quotes, escaped
> quotes, table name only, no quotes....nothing works. I think there is a bug
> in DBD::mysql(3). I have spent hours and hours googling this problem and no
> one else has reported it.
>
> ~mark
>
>>>> Tim Bunce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 11-May-06 08:40:24 AM >>>
> On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 09:26:52AM -0400, Mark Galbreath wrote:
>> Of course it's a string. It was a typo.
>>
>> my $rows = $dbh->do("LOAD DATA INFILE 'data.txt' INTO TABLE 'db.table' FIELDS
>> TERMINATED BY '|'");
>>
>> 'db.table' == "database_name.table_name"
>
> Don't put single quotes around the table name.
>
> db.table
> or `db`.`table`
>
> should work, but 'db.table' won't.
>
> Tim.
>
>>>>> Paul DuBois <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 10-May-06 09:13:47 AM >>>
>>
>> On 5/10/06 7:58, "Mark Galbreath" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi guys,
>>>
>>> The following query works fine from the MySQL client:
>>>
>>> LOAD DATA INFILE 'data.txt' INTO TABLE 'db.table' FIELDS TERMINATED BY
>>> '|'
>>>
>>> but fails in perl with a malformed SQL syntax error:
>>>
>>> my $rows = $dbh->do(LOAD DATA INFILE 'data.txt' INTO TABLE 'db.table' FIELDS
>>> TERMINATED BY '|');
>>>
>>> Anybody have a clue as to why this will not work?
>>
>> That hasn't the faintest hope of working. You should post the actual code
>> that you're using. do() with a non-string argument is surely not your
>> actual code.
>>
>> Also, 'db.table' doesn't look like a valid quoted identifier.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
