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Re: Embedded <CRLF> in text file

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Kurt Dicus (kdicus@dicus.com) writes:
> This would be a perfect file!
> 
> ID<t>STATUS<t>DESCRIPTION<t>ACTIVE<c>
> 1<t>active<t>Test description short<t>true<c>
> 2<t>under construction<t>Test description 2<t>false<c>
> 
> What the file actually looks like.
> ID<t>STATUS<t>DESCRIPTION<t>ACTIVE<c>
> 1<t>active<t>Test<c>   -- it is only the DESCRIPTION field that has the 
> premature break
> description<c>
> long string<t>true<c>
> 2<t>under construction<t>Test description 2<t>false<c>
 
Have you tried to bulk-load this misfit with BCP or BULK INSERT? I belive
that should work. They look for one field at a time, so when they look for 
the third field, they are looking for tab characters to terminate that 
field. The CRLF will be consumed as data.
-- 
Erland Sommarskog, SQL Server MVP, esquel@sommarskog.se

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Embedded <CRLF> in text file "Kurt Dicus" <kdicus@dicus.com> - 2011-07-21 00:17 -0700
  Re: Embedded <CRLF> in text file Erland Sommarskog <esquel@sommarskog.se> - 2011-07-21 11:05 +0200
    Re: Embedded <CRLF> in text file "Kurt Dicus" <kdicus@dicus.com> - 2011-07-21 02:14 -0700

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