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file
Reads a file as string and loads the data into the specified column. The file content is not interpreted.
Also see table function file.
Syntax
file(path[, default])
Arguments
path
— The path of the file relative to user_files_path. Supports wildcards*
,**
,?
,{abc,def}
and{N..M}
whereN
,M
are numbers and'abc', 'def'
are strings.default
— The value returned if the file does not exist or cannot be accessed. Supported data types: String and NULL.
Example
Inserting data from files a.txt and b.txt into a table as strings:
INSERT INTO table SELECT file('a.txt'), file('b.txt');