Hello Again. New to Perl.

I have a simple text file that has 2 fields separated by commas and each line ends with a new-line character. I want to aad this text file into a table. Description of table:

Create Table testtable ( field1 int(6) Primry Key, field2 int(4)) engine=myisam;

For the sake of example, my text file has 1 record:
First Field: 055555 Second Field: 1234
Thus the format 055555,1234

Problem: Because both fields in the table are described as INT, if any of the fields coming from the text file have a leading zero, the zero is dropped in the table field. If I change the table field to CHAR instead of INT it works fine.

Here's the Load Data instructions:

LOAD DATA INFILE 'text.txt' Into Table testtable Fields terminated by ',' Lines terminated by '\n';

Any ideas? Thank you.

Edit (davorg): Removed SHOUTING from title


In reply to Load Data in File by PerceptiveJohn

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