I have a csv where each row starts with quotation marks and ends with them too. How do I ignore the quotations at the start and end of the row when loading the csv into a table?
LOAD DATA LOCAL INFILE '/path/data.csv'
INTO TABLE test1
FIELDS TERMINATED BY ';'
LINES TERMINATED BY '\"\n'
IGNORE 1 ROWS;
I have tried
OPTIONALLY ENCLOSED BY '"'
but this refers to each specific field and not the entire row.
As commented by Shadow and Barmar, the answer lies in the documentation :
If all the input lines have a common prefix that you want to ignore, you can use LINES STARTING BY 'prefix_string' to skip the prefix and anything before it. If a line does not include the prefix, the entire line is skipped. [...] The FIELDS TERMINATED BY, LINES STARTING BY, and LINES TERMINATED BY values can be more than one character.
Hence, use :
LOAD DATA LOCAL INFILE '/path/data.csv'
INTO TABLE test1
FIELDS TERMINATED BY ';'
LINES STARTING BY '"'
LINES TERMINATED BY '"\n'
IGNORE 1 ROWS;