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

First create a temporary table which you will load all lines into it, then you can load the data from the temporary table into the main table and split to fields using substring

Something like this:

CREATE TEMPORARY TABLE tmp_lines
  (countrystring TEXT);

LOAD DATA INFILE 'yourfilegoeshere' INTO TABLE tmp_lines
  FIELDS TERMINATED BY ''
  LINES TERMINATED BY '\r\n';

INSERT INTO main_table SELECT SUBSTRING(countrystring,1,2), SUBSTRING(countrystring,3, 2), SUBSTRING(countrystring,5) from tmp_lines;