Peter Boughton wrote: > Was there an example there? "Something like..."?
"that" was supposed to follow. > I've currently got something which works similarly to how you > described, but the bit which is causing problems is when there is a > comma inside an already quoted field - in my example, the "China, > people's republic of" bit. > It seems like a simple ,"[^"]*,[^"]*", should work, ... and it does! > :S Gah, it didn't work earlier. :@ Hah! I think we've all had that happen. :-) --Ben > On 12/08/05, Ben Doom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>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 >>> >>> >> >> > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Discover CFTicket - The leading ColdFusion Help Desk and Trouble Ticket application http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=48 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:21:922 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
