MySQL LOAD DATA INFILE: works, but unpredictable line terminator

Question

MySQL has a nice CSV import function LOAD DATA INFILE.

I have a large dataset that needs to be imported from CSV on a regular basis, so this feature is

Answer 1

You can use LINES STARTING to separate usual line endings in text and a new row:

LOAD DATA LOCAL INFILE '/home/laptop/Downloads/field3-utf8.csv' 
IGNORE INTO TABLE Field FIELDS 
TERMINATED BY ';' 
OPTIONALLY ENCLOSED BY '^' 
LINES STARTING BY '^' 
TERMINATED BY '\r\n' 
(Id, Form_id, Name, Value)

For usual CSV files with " enclosing chars, it will be:

...
LINES STARTING BY '"' 
...