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THIAM_HUATTAN
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Skip number of rows when reading CSV files

staticDataFrame = spark.read.format("csv")\ .option("header", "true").option("inferSchema", "true").load("/FileStore/tables/Consumption_2019/*.csv") when above, I need an option to skip say first 4 lines on each CSV file, How do I do that?

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Michael_Appiah
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The option... .option("skipRows", <number of rows to skip>) ...works for me as well. However, I am surprised that the official Spark doc does not list it as a CSV Data Source Option: https://spark.apache.org/docs/latest/sql-data-sources-csv.html#data...

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shamly
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How to remove extra ENTER line in csv UTF-16 while reading

Dear Friends,I have a csv and it looks like this‡‡Id‡‡,‡‡Version‡‡,‡‡Questionnaire‡‡,‡‡Date‡‡‡‡123456‡‡,‡‡Version2‡‡,‡‡All questions have been answered accurately and the guidance in the questionnaire was understood and followed‡‡,‡‡2010-12-16 00:01:...

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This is working fine, from pyspark.sql.functions import regexp_replace   path="dbfs:/FileStore/df/test.csv" dff = spark.read.option("header", "true").option("inferSchema", "true").option('multiline', 'true').option('encoding', 'UTF-8').option("delimi...

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Raagavi
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Is there a way to read the CSV files automatically from on-premises network locations and write back to the same from Databricks?

Is there a way to read the CSV files automatically from on-premises network locations and write back to the same from Databricks? 

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Hi @Raagavi Rajagopal​ , you can access files on mounted object storage (just an example) or files, please refer: https://docs.databricks.com/files/index.html#access-files-on-mounted-object-storageAnd in the DBFS , CSV files can be read and write fr...

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Shay
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Resolved! How do you Upload TXT and CSV files into Shared Workspace in Databricks?

I try to upload the needed files under the right directory of the project to work.The files are zipped first as that is an accepted format. I have a Python project which requires the TXT and CSV format files as they are called and used via .py files ...

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@Shay Alam​, can you share the code with which you read the files? Apparently python interprets the file format as a language, so it seems like some options are not filled in correctly.

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Resolved! Schema inferrence CSV picks up \r carriage returns

I'm using: frame = spark.read.csv(path=bucket+folder, inferSchema = True, header = True, multiLine=True ) to read in a series of CSV ...

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Hubert-Dudek
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Files saved in Windows operation system contain carriage return and line feed in every line.Please add following option it can help: .option("ignoreTrailingWhiteSpace", true)

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