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Load multiple csv files into a dataframe in order

Shridhar
New Contributor

I can load multiple csv files by doing something like:

paths = ["file_1", "file_2", "file_3"]
df = sqlContext.read
       .format("com.databricks.spark.csv")
       .option("header", "true")
       .load(paths)

But this doesn't seem to preserve the order in |paths|.

In particular, I'm trying to have a monotonically increasing id that spans the data in all files.

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Jaswanth_Saniko
New Contributor III
val diamonds = spark.read.format("csv")
  .option("header", "true")
  .option("inferSchema", "true")
  .load("/FileStore/tables/11.csv","/FileStore/tables/12.csv","/FileStore/tables/13.csv")
 
display(diamonds)

This is working for me @Shridharโ€‹ 

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JayaKommuru
New Contributor II

@shridhar have you found out an alternative for achieving this. I also have the same problem.

Jaswanth_Saniko
New Contributor III
val diamonds = spark.read.format("csv")
  .option("header", "true")
  .option("inferSchema", "true")
  .load("/FileStore/tables/11.csv","/FileStore/tables/12.csv","/FileStore/tables/13.csv")
 
display(diamonds)

This is working for me @Shridharโ€‹ 

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