Well, this can be done with regex, but I would probably skip it. Check first and last chars, and prepend/append ~BLANK~ as necessary, replace() quotes with ~QUOTE~, replace commas with "," and then prepend/append with quotes. Something like
The code might not be as pretty, but it'll be easier to debug. --Ben Peter Boughton wrote: > I have some data resembling the following: > Mr,Bob,Smith,Bobs House,Bobs Road,,,Bobs City,,Bobs Postcode,"China, > People's Republic of",[EMAIL PROTECTED],, > > And I would like to convert it to this: > "Mr","Bob","Smith","Bobs House","Bobs Road","~BLANK~","~BLANK~","Bobs > City","~BLANK~","Bobs Postcode","China~COMMA~ People's Republic > of","[EMAIL PROTECTED]","~BLANK~","~BLANK~" > > Can anyone provide a/some tidy regex statement(s) that will do this for me. > > Bonus points for being able to cater for things such as this: > Mr,Bob,Smith,Bobs "Fun" House,Bobs Road... > to > "Mr","Bob","Smith","Bobs ~QUOTE~Fun~QUOTE~ House","Bobs Road"... > but I don't think that's needed for my current set of data. > > A thousand thankyou's to anyone able to help. > > Peter > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Find out how CFTicket can increase your company's customer support efficiency by 100% http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=49 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:21:920 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/21 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:21 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.21 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
