[ale] One for the perl hackers

[fletch at phydeaux.org (Mike Fletcher)]

> On Oct 3, 2013, at 17:22, "Robert L. Harris" <robert.l.harris at gmail.com> wrote:
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> 
> *Sorry for the OT but my only perl lists have gone dark a long time ago*
> 
> 
> $String='component1,component2,"This is my, test string", component4';
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> ($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

Trying to handle csv (which it looks like your sample is) yourself is asking for pain. Use Text::CSV_XS from cpan which will handle most csv-y quoting the way you expect. 


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