exporting a table in MySQL with columns that have newline characters

Question

I am pretty inexperienced in SQL, so there should be a simple solution to my problem: I am selecting a table into a comma-separated file, and the column of type TEXT has new

Answer 1

Just enclose everything in double quotes perhaps.

SELECT * FROM db.table INTO OUTFILE 'c:/result.txt'  FIELDS TERMINATED BY ',' ESCAPED BY '\\' ENCLOSED BY '"' LINES TERMINATED BY '\r\n';

Answer 2

Novikov is correct but you could also escape the new line characters while exporting.

SELECT REPLACE(`fieldname1`,'\n','\\n'),`fieldname2` FROM db.table INTO OUTFILE 'c:/result.txt'  FIELDS TERMINATED BY ',' ESCAPED BY '\\' ENCLOSED BY '"' LINES TERMINATED BY '\r\n';

This will then replace all the new line characters with the text string '\n' This may not be what you want in the output though.

DC