Re: Export MySQL table to CSV file?

[thunders]

this is not really a perl question, though one could do this in perl fairly easily* with a module like DBI I 've had to do this a number of times, i'd say the best easiest most flexible program that does this is PhpMyAdmin which requires php 3 or 4 and a webserver. Not only does PhpMyAdmin allow a flexible set of options for CSV export, but it also allow you to export SQL or PHP code to recreate your database.

*I say fairly easily but there are a number of gotchas involving dealing with data containg quotation marks and/or commas. There are functions in DBI that will make quoting these strings a bit easier.

[LTjake]

As for a perl solution, gossamer-threads has a product called MysqlMan. It's based off of PHPMyAdmin. I've used it on many occasions. The best feature, imo, is the ability to make a dump file of all of the data in a database.