Hi, Harpreet:
You should use MySQL C API mysql_escape_string(...) to convert that
description field into a legal SQL string before load data infile.
B.R.
budingc
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From: "Harpreet Kaur" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, March 27, 2002 4:41 AM
Subject: load data infile question
> I want to transfer data from a table in sql server to mysql. I use
> C:\> BCP dbname.dbo.tblname out tblname.txt -S srvrname -U sa �P
sapwd -c
> -t \t -r \n
> to write the data to a text file and then use
> load data infile ?var/www/html/tblname.txt' into table tblname;
>
> It works fine for all the tables except this one table which has
> description field with several lines. It assumes each line as a seperate
> field rather then one field and so create errors.
>
> Please help.
>
> Regards Harpreet
>
>
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