Hello,

I have problems with parsing data, can anybody help me: this is the data structure: 

        COLUMN_A: "Y","N"
        COLUMN_B:
        COLUMN_C: "something", "something else", "and more"
        ...

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I need to separate them to a two dimensional array of strings like: 
@array[0][0] = "COLUMN_A";
@array[0][1] = "Y";
@array[0][2] = "N";
@array[1][0] = "COLUMN_B"
@array[2][0] = "COLUMN_C"
@array[2][1] = "something"
@array[3][2] = "something else"
@array[3][3] = "and more"

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the problem is, that i need to get rid of the colon, the commas, and the "".

the line begins with the column name, before can be whitespaces what i don't need. then the parameters separated by commas, i don't need the "" too. so as in the example above. there can be from 0 to undefined params.

I'm a beginner, so help me, please.

Edited by Chady -- removed <pre> tags, fixed formatting.

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