How to skip columns in CSV file when importing into MySQL table using LOAD DATA INFILE?

Question

I\'ve got a CSV file with 11 columns and I have a MySQL table with 9 columns.

The CSV file looks like:

col1, col2, col3, col4, col5, col6, col7, col         


        

Answer 1

From Mysql docs:

You can also discard an input value by assigning it to a user variable and not assigning the variable to a table column:

LOAD DATA INFILE 'file.txt'  
INTO TABLE t1 (column1, @dummy, column2, @dummy, column3);