I have a line of comma sep data from an excel output:
Name,1,2,3, which gives:
"Last,First",1,2,3...
The comma separating Last, First, is screwing with my split function.
Whenever a field has a comma inside it, excel will put quotes around the entire cell to indicate that it is indeed one record, and not two.

For parsing it, I'm planning to split the line via "" first, then split the other half of the line by comma. BUT this isn't a very flexible approach, and if other records in the string have "" I won't accomodate them at all.
Is there a way for split to ignore delimiters inside other delimiters, like ignore the comma inside a quote, or is there just a better way to do this?

Thanks,
Tim

In reply to Split line with extra delim by ecuguru

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