Dear Monks,

I would like a regex that will pick out a string that does not contain a comma except where ", City of" or ", County of" is present.

I tried the following: 
 if ( $_ =~
       m/^([^,]+),([^,|,\sCity\sof|,\sCounty\sof]+),[\d|\.]+,[\d|\.]+,
+[\d|\.]+,[\d|\.]+,,[\d|\.]+,[\d|\.]+,[\d|\.]+,[\d|\.]+,,[\d|\.]+,[\d|
+\.]+,[\d|\.]+,[\d|\.]+/
     )
    {

[download]
without luck. Any help appreciated.

Update: I am working with a CSV file. However I am not sure if the CSV modules suggested below would get around the problem of commas existing where they shouldn't.

In reply to Anything that is not ',' except .... RegEx question by Win

Title:
Use:  <p> text here (a paragraph) </p>
and:  <code> code here </code>
to format your post, it's "PerlMonks-approved HTML":


  • Posts are HTML formatted. Put <p> </p> tags around your paragraphs. Put <code> </code> tags around your code and data!
  • Titles consisting of a single word are discouraged, and in most cases are disallowed outright.
  • Read Where should I post X? if you're not absolutely sure you're posting in the right place.
  • Please read these before you post! —
  • Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags:
    a, abbr, b, big, blockquote, br, caption, center, col, colgroup, dd, del, details, div, dl, dt, em, font, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, hr, i, ins, li, ol, p, pre, readmore, small, span, spoiler, strike, strong, sub, summary, sup, table, tbody, td, tfoot, th, thead, tr, tt, u, ul, wbr
  • You may need to use entities for some characters, as follows. (Exception: Within code tags, you can put the characters literally.)
            For:     Use:
    & &amp;
    < &lt;
    > &gt;
    [ &#91;
    ] &#93;
  • Link using PerlMonks shortcuts! What shortcuts can I use for linking?
  • See Writeup Formatting Tips and other pages linked from there for more info.