Unfortunately, they are indeed enclosed by double quotes Roy
-----Original Message----- From: Jay Blanchard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2003 12:58 PM To: Roy W; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [PHP] Escaping nasty quotes [snip] Sorry...Because of the double quote near the ENCLOSED BY .. It delivers a PARSE ERROR $query = "LOAD DATA LOCAL INFILE '/home/data.txt' INTO TABLE mytable FIELDS TERMINATED BY ',' ENCLOSED BY '"' "; [/snip] Are the fields enclosed by a quote? If not... $query = "LOAD DATA LOCAL INFILE '/home/data.txt' INTO TABLE mytable FIELDS TERMINATED BY ',' ENCLOSED BY '' "; -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php