Gilles wrote: > At 22:47 04/02/2008 +1100, John Machin wrote: > >> Well, obviously(?) you are closer to success with "\t" than with '\t'. >> You probably have an extra unseen TAB. It won't like that NULL. >> > > Thanks, but no matter what I try, it doesn't work: > - just two columns, assuming it will just increment the primary key since > it didn't find anything for this column > - three columns, with col#1 set to "NULL" > - three columns, with col#1 set to just ASCII 09, ie. TAB > If you are using TAB as the separator, col#1 can't be set to TAB -- I presume that you mean that col#1 is empty i.e. a zero-length string.
> How is your "barzot.tsv" formatted? How do you handle the first column that > works as an auto-incremented primary key? > Like I said in my message: """ Here's what works for me: C:\junk>type barzot.tsv 1 bar zot 42 plugh xyzzy 666 far narkle ============= Yes, there are 2 TABs per line. C:\junk>sqlite3 """ It seems that .import doesn't do auto increment. You will have to use Dennis's two-pass technique, or write a small one-pass script in e.g. Python to read your file and insert the rows into the table. _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@sqlite.org http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
