On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 12:36 PM, Melvin Davidson <melvin6...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > contents of /tmp/junk.data: > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > 1,'junk1' > 2,'junk1' > 3,'junk1' > Good info but I resonably certain the format in question is more like: -------------------- 1,'junk1',\r\n,'blah','blah2' 2,'junk2',\r\n,'blah' 3,'junk3',\r\n,'blah','blah2','blah3' and the OP wants to only import the common columns while ignoring the fact that extra columns exist. I guess line 4 could read: 4,'junk4','important',\r\n,'blah','blah2' so that even within the main structure there would be a variable number of columns... David J.