"Chap Harrison" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Hi, > > I'm looking for a module or a perl code snippet to parse optionally- > quoted, comma-separated values. > > The most obvious candidate, Text::CSV, won't do the job for two reasons: > > -- it only recognizes double-quotes as the quote character. My input > uses single-quotes. > -- including the quote character within a quoted value requires doubling > the literal quote character (i.e. "I said ""Hi"""). My input uses an > escape character ('Henry\'s'). > > I'd like to be able to parse the following example ... > > 'George',123,'Harry\'s',,'Tuesday, Thursday' > ...
You gave up too quick :-) Theres also Text::CSV_XS which is configurable (and faster than Text::CSV). Specifically, note the quote_char and escape_char arguments to the constructor... Todd W. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
