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  3. February 2010

Re: Parsing out a string

James Perkins wrote:

Anyway, James your code is missing one key thing. You have to make
sure the double quote is not an escape character. Generally speaking
in a CSV when you have a string that contains a double quote, it is
escaped with another double quote.

That of course assumes that escaped double-quotes are even permitted in the data.

Of course, we don't know that they are, much less whether they are escaped by being doubled, or with a backslash.

At any rate, the "prior art" is undoubtedly more sophisticated than my quickie algorithm.

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