java - MySQL DATA Truncation Error occuring from Java application but not directly on MySQL

Question

I am using the JDBC driver to connect to a mysql database and using the "LOAD DATA INFILE" command in my java application to load(insert) a text file into the database. I am getting the following error: Data truncation: Data too long for column xxx at row 1.

However if I load the same text file manually by logging into the database and entering the SQL manually, the data loads fine.

Can someone pelase tell me what the error might be?

I am running this on Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.8 and the jdk version is 1.5.0_16 if that helps

This is the function used to load the data

    public static void loaddata(Connection conn, String filename, String tablename)
{
    try{
    Statement stmt = null;
    stmt = conn.createStatement();
    File file = new File(filename);
    file.getAbsolutePath().replace("\\", "\\\\");
    String cmd = "LOAD DATA INFILE '"
            + file.getAbsolutePath().replace("\\", "\\\\")
            + "' INTO TABLE " + tablename + " FIELDS TERMINATED BY \'^\'";
    stmt.executeUpdate(cmd);
    System.out.println("cmd     :" + cmd);
    }
    catch(SQLException sqle){
        sqle.printStackTrace();
    }
}

This is the function to create the JDBC connection:

    public static Connection createConnection()
{
    Connection conn=null;

    try {
        Class.forName("com.mysql.jdbc.Driver").newInstance();
    }       
    catch(Exception e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }
    try {
        String url = ""; //URL mentioned in the actual code
        conn = DriverManager.getConnection(url, user, pass);
    } catch (SQLException sqe1) {
        sqe1.printStackTrace();
    }
    return conn;
}