in reply to Regex to do a smart split()

There's plenty of CSV-handling code written already, which deal with all of these issues (and more). CPAN is a library of freely available Perl modules which have been tested and documented for easy use in your projects. Browse search.cpan.org, for example, Text::CSV.

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Re: Re: Regex to do a smart split()
by hardburn (Abbot) on Jan 30, 2004 at 15:49 UTC

    Do note that Text::CSV has been sitting at a 0.01 release since 1997 and should be considered deprecated. Text::CSV_XS is a much better choice. It's faster and has only been sitting since 2001 (a little better, anyway).

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      No, its the other way around. Text::CSV works for more data than Text::CSV_XS. I never looked into what the issue was but the XS version is clearly inferior to the plain-perl version because it works when the other version flat-out fails.
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        According to replies to Reading escaped data from a CSV, Text::CSV doesn't handle embedded newlines (Text::CSV_XS will as long as you use binary mode). Though after looking though those replies, Text::xSV looks even better.

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      and should be considered deprecated.
      Because it's old?
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Re: Re: Regex to do a smart split()
by Anonymous Monk on Jan 30, 2004 at 15:54 UTC
    Thanks for super-fast response. I'd completely forgotten about the existance of CPAN...
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      I'd completely forgotten about the existance of CPAN... (sic)

      Yer not from around here, are ye? :p

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