Question

I am trying to load some data from a text file into mysql. I would like to ignore the first line.

From the mysql 5.5 manual, there is a “ignore 1 line” option.

I have tried using this query to no avail:

LOAD DATA LOCAL INFILE 'iso-languagecodes.txt' INTO TABLE iso_languagecodes (iso_639_3, iso_639_2, iso_639_1, language_name) IGNORE 1 LINES; 

Can anyone point out what is wrong?

This is the error I am receiving

ERROR 1064 (42000): You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that
corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ' IGNO
RE 1 LINES' at line 1

The following 2 queries will work:

LOAD DATA LOCAL INFILE 'iso-languagecodes.txt' INTO TABLE iso_languagecodes (iso_639_3, iso_639_2, iso_639_1, language_name);

or

LOAD DATA LOCAL INFILE 'iso-languagecodes.txt' INTO TABLE iso_languagecodes IGNORE 1 LINES;

But, I need to be able to specify the columns and ignore the first line.

Answer 1

For those interested, here is the final solution:

LOAD DATA LOCAL INFILE 'iso-languagecodes.txt' INTO TABLE iso_languagecodes IGNORE 1 LINES (iso_639_3, iso_639_2, iso_639_1, language_name);