ERROR: COPY delimiter must be a single one-byte character

Question

I want to load the data from a flat file with delimiter \"~,~\" into a PostgreSQL table. I have tried it as below but looks like there is a restriction for the delimiter. If

Answer 1

Not quite sure if you're looking for a postgresql solution or just a general one.

If it were me, I would open up a copy of vim (or gvim) and run the commend :%s/~,~/~/g
That replaces all "~,~" with "~".