<div dir="ltr"><br><div>For the Curious, Larry on Denver PM came back with this:</div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">That line looks like a line you would get in a CSV file, so I would</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">handle it that way:</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> use Text::CSV;</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> my $line = 'component1,component2,"This is my, test string",</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> component4';</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> my $csv = Text::CSV->new;</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> $csv->parse($line) or die $csv->error_diag();</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> my @columns = $csv->fields();</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">At this point, @columns contains:</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> $columns[0]: 'component1'</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> $columns[1]: 'component2'</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> $columns[2]: 'This is my, test string'</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> $columns[3]: ' component4'</span><br></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Which worked perfectly.</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Robert</span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br>
</span></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Oct 3, 2013 at 3:22 PM, Robert L. Harris <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:robert.l.harris@gmail.com" target="_blank">robert.l.harris@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div>*Sorry for the OT but my only perl lists have gone dark a long time ago*<div><br></div><div>
<br></div><div>$String='component1,component2,"This is my, test string", component4';</div>
<div><br></div><div>($C1, $C2, $Str, $C4) = split(',', $String);</div><div><br></div><div>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.</div>
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<div><br></div><div>Robert</div><div><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br>:wq!<br>---------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>Robert L. Harris<br><br>DISCLAIMER:<br> These are MY OPINIONS With Dreams To Be A King,<br>
ALONE. I speak for First One Should Be A Man<br> no-one else. - Manowar
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</blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br>:wq!<br>---------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>Robert L. Harris<br><br>DISCLAIMER:<br> These are MY OPINIONS With Dreams To Be A King,<br>
ALONE. I speak for First One Should Be A Man<br> no-one else. - Manowar
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