Question

I am trying to load a text file into an existing table by issuing the following command

load data infile "test.txt" into table m_c; 

The table has 5 columns: id, title, official, genre and platform
where the id is the primary key with auto_increment set.

The file was added to the table, but the content was not. Instead i got NULL as values for all columns.

I really need to know why!

Answer 1

LOAD DATA INFILE 'test.txt'
  INTO TABLE m_c
  (title, genre, platform, official)
SET gameid = NULL;

Reference

Also, how is your file formatted? Tab delimited? CSV? You may need file or line terminators.

See the manual.