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| Hi, I'm working on an application where I need to load data from an external textfile. The text-file is made by an excel-file, that is saved as Text, with a tab as the field delimiter. I have a temp-table, into which I load this textfile, using: LOAD DATA INFILE textfile.txt INTO TABLE temp_table The number of columns in the textfile matches the number of columns in the table, and importing like this works fine. What I do not know is if I need to escape any characters in the textfile (that could corrupt this LOAD DATA INFILE-action somehow), like single quotes, commas etc. before importing the file? Which characters do I need to escape for this to work properly? Other tips or suggestions are also very welcome! Thanks, Job |