Question

I want to use mysql LOAD DATA to import CSV file. Numbers in my CSV have thousands separated by space, ie. 14 987 000. MySQL truncates it to 14 while importing. Is there any way to overcome this limitation without altering CSV source file?

P.S. I don’t want to change field type from INT to VARCHAR.

Thank you

Answer 1

Try:

REPLACE('14 987 000', ' ', '');

E.g.

LOAD DATA INFILE 'file.csv'
INTO TABLE t1(column1, column2, @number_column_value)
SET number_column = REPLACE(@number_column_value, ' ', '')