[ale] One for the perl hackers

[Jim Kinney]

Unless you have a magical way to escape the comma inside the quoted string,
you're stuck. sed 's/\(".\+\),\(.\+"\)/\1\\,\2/g' file. Assuming all
intermediate strings will be double quoted.

Might try splitting to an array instead of individual string vars. Then you
can do a length test to see if you got something "extra".
@strings = split(',' , $String);

Be sure to empty the array after each run or loop it as a local variable
created each pass.



On Thu, Oct 3, 2013 at 5:22 PM, Robert L. Harris
<robert.l.harris at gmail.com>wrote:

>
> *Sorry for the OT but my only perl lists have gone dark a long time ago*
>
>
> $String='component1,component2,"This is my, test string", component4';
>
> ($C1, $C2, $Str, $C4) = split(',', $String);
>
> I'm only getting "This is my" in $Str and $C4 does not contain
> "component4".  Is there a graceful way of handling this?  It's a 1 in 10000
> chance it'll break but accuracy counts.
>
> Robert
>
>
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