Converting to Drupal

I'm using the import module to import content from an old site's table. What I need is the correct sql select statement to dump the old table's contents to a flat file, with {} delimiting every field, and {[]} delimiting every record.

In other words i'd like the file to look like the following.

row1: field1{}field2{}field3{}field4{[]}

row2: field1{}field2{}field3{}field4{[]}

Hi, i am being converting a static html site to Drupal.
It was run properly but if i open the site without www it will be redirect to install.php , example http://mysite.com it will redirect to http://mysite.com/install.php

But when i am using www like http://www.mysite.com it was run properly ...
What the problem .. ? Any body know the solutions ?
Thanks

For example, how to import data from existing application.

If you declare profiles to be nodes and data is stored in several tables how does one import?

I checked out the profile_values table in the core profile module.

What are the alternatives?

I installed the core profile module. I get the point about having one table with field definitions and another with actual values.
But it looks like no matter what value is stored for a given field, there is a long fixed length field.

Is this correct, and if so how wide is that field, and how efficient is this methodology?

Regarding the profile_values table, looking at the structure it appears that these are long text fields. How much space is reserved by each row and how efficient is this for a large amount of users?