Re: Urgent: LOAD problem #2

In article <349aa04e.29161837@netnews.upenn.edu>, Al Wang <alwang@NOSPAMdoubt.com> writes >Hi, > >More questions from a desparate Informix novice: > >If you're reading in a textfile with records that have a LOT of >fields(100+, many in nested and collection datatypes) is there any way >to signal the end of a record with a delimiter, and have the parser >ignore carriage returns? Carriage returns seem like a very inaccurate >way to process an ASCII file, and most other databse products I've >worked with allow other options... > Nope carraige return delimits records in a load file. Remember this is UNIX where text files are lines of test and end in '\\n' the way C like them!! >Thanks, >Al >Al Wang >http://www.seas.upenn.edu/~alwang >remove NOSPAM to reply -- David Williams