Anonymous Monk wrote: Please do not recommend a perl module for this task, as this is just as much about the technique as it is the task.

Well, if you want to get this right, don't forget to include proper handling of newlines in CSV fields (Text::CSV gets this wrong, last I checked). Also, what if the escape is escaped? You'll want to deal with that. And what if you have "quoted commas, don't split".

In other words, that could be a fair amount of "technique" to get right, or you could just use a good module, which is a better "technique". Regular expressions are great, but they tend to be overused.

Cheers,
Ovid

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In reply to Re: Reading escaped data from a CSV by Ovid
in thread Reading escaped data from a CSV by Anonymous Monk

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