in reply to string parsing with split

I think Text::CSV is a well known solution to such problems

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Re^2: string parsing with split
by ikegami (Patriarch) on Jan 24, 2011 at 21:01 UTC
    It's not up to the task. It can be configured to allow quoting to start in the middle of a field (loose quotes), but it doesn't support multiple quoting characters or balanced quotes (start quote character (e.g. "(") different than end quote character (")")).