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
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
> 
> 

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