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Re: [Boston.pm] Regexp puzzler: msg#00013

Subject: Re: [Boston.pm] Regexp puzzler
On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 11:58:33AM -0500, Andy Lester wrote:
> > foo
> > bar
> > names="charlie,john,ann"
> > ages='20,30,40'
> >
> > Can anyone come up with a single regexp that I can use in a call to  
> > split()
> > that will handle this case, or another equally elegant solution ?
> 
> You don't want a regex.
> 
> This format is called "CSV" for "Comma-separated values", and you  
> want to have a module do it for you, preferably Text::CSV_XS.

This doesn't look like proper CSV to me.  The quote characters are not
surrounding an entire value, but rather part of a value.

Ronald



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