Format file error, can't fix it!

Question

Hello, I need to import data from text file.I'm using BULK INSERT + format file because I need to skip some fields in my data file.
But I can't fix error appearing during query execution, I've tried to find the answer in the Internet, but didn't succeed.
This is my text datafile: (example of record: 12 fields delimited by $, row is terminated with $ too, some of them are empty as you can see from this example))
5045669$1007449353$PS$TEAM$1$TRY$$$$UNKNOWN$$21226$ 
This is the format of my table in database:
[id, name, transaction_id] created with the following query:
USE MyDB;
GO
CREATE TABLE dbo.table1
id int NOT NULL,
name varchar(50) NOT NULL,
transaction_id int PRIMARY KEY NOT NULL
GO
in this table:
"transaction_id" should match 1st field in datafile (5045669 in my example)
"name" = 4th field (TEAM in my example)
"id" = 2nd field in datafile (1007449353 in ex.)
all other fields must be skipped.
I use myformat.fmt file, created manually:
9.0
12
2 SQLINT     0 4    "$" 1 id ""
4 SQLCHAR 2 50  "$" 2 name SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS
3 SQLCHAR 2 50  "$" 0 Extra SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS
1 SQLINT 0  4       "$" 3 transaction_id ""
5 SQLINT 0  4       "$" 0 Extra ""  
6 SQLCHAR 2 50  "$" 0 Extra SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS
7 SQLCHAR 2 50  "$" 0 Extra SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS
8 SQLCHAR 2 8    "$" 0 Extra SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS
9 SQLCHAR 2 8    "$" 0 Extra SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS
10 SQLINT 0 4      "$" 0 Extra ""
11 SQLINT 0 4      "$" 0 Extra ""
12 SQLINT 0 4      "$" 0 Extra "" 
I'm doing my import using this query:
BULK INSERT MyDB.dbo.table1
FROM 'C:\Documents and Settings\Наташа\project\data\data.TXT' 
WITH (FIELDTERMINATOR='$', ROWTERMINATOR='$', 
FORMATFILE='C:\Documents and Settings\Наташа\project\data\myformat.fmt');
GO
but I obtain the following error:
Msg 4823, Level 16, State 1, Line 1
Cannot bulk load. Invalid column number in the format file "C:\Documents and Settings\Наташа\project\data\myformat.fmt".
I don't know how to fix it! I tried to check whether I was inprecise while creating format file, but it seems to me that everything is correct, I've put myformat.fmt into the same directory with my text datafile (it was in "C:\SQL Server Management Studio\Projects" folder initially), but I still get this error.
Help me, please

Answer 1

Natasit,
Is this still an issue?
Thanks!
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