How to import text file to table with primary key as auto-increment

Question

I have some bulk data in a text file that I need to import into a MySQL table. The table consists of two fields ..

1. ID (integer with auto-increment)
2. Na

Answer 1

If the table columns do not match, I usually add "bogus" fields with empty data where the real data would've been, so, if my table needs "id", "name", "surname", "address", "email" and I have "id", "name", "surname", I change my CSV file to have "id", "name", "surname", "address", "email" but leave the fields that I do not have data for blank.

This results in a CSV file looking like this:

1,John,Doe,,
2,Jane,Doe,,

I find it simpler than the other methods.