MySQL how to specify string position with LOAD DATA INFILE

Question

I have ASCII files with a static number of characters for each line with no delimiters. I\'d like to use LOAD DATA INFILE to import into my table.

Example of file:

Answer 1

Another way to do this is just assigning a variable and splitting it direct in your load.

LOAD DATA INFILE 'yourfilegoeshere' INTO TABLE main_table
  LINES TERMINATED BY '\r\n' (@_var)
set
  field1=TRIM(SUBSTR(@_var from 1 for 2)),
  field2=TRIM(SUBSTR(@_var from 3 for 2)),
  field3=TRIM(SUBSTR(@_var from 5 for 70));

Just be sure not to specify any field separator, otherwise you will have to use more variables, note that I'm using TRIM to clean data in the same statement.