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Asked: 2026-06-07T21:55:29+00:00

I’m new to SQL and I’m just having a little difficulty with the syntax

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I’m new to SQL and I’m just having a little difficulty with the syntax for load data infile.

So my data is in the format below and I’ve created a table with 2 columns one for ints and another for varchars.

0,Albert
1,America
2,American
3,April
4,Austrian
5,Badcock's

This is the code I was trying but it just puts everything into the first row of the varchar column, could someone point me in the right direction? Thanks

load data infile 'C:/temp/correct.csv'
into table correct_spellings
FIELDS TERMINATED BY ','
LINES TERMINATED BY '\r\n'
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  1. Editorial Team

    Since you’ve copied+pasted your data, it is impossible to tell whether lines are truly terminated by \r\n.

    I suggest that you first try without the LINES TERMINATED BY... clause. Let MySQL auto-detect this for you.

    If this does not work, try again, this time with only \n, or only \r.

    Sorry – I can’t provide with a definite answer, you’ll have to test…

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