On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 9:09 AM, Barney Boisvert <bboisv...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Use a CSV parsing library, rather than rolling your own. They take > care of all that stuff for you. I've used > http://ostermiller.org/utils/CSV.html in the past.
I took a look at that and didn't see anything that would be of help since it's not standard formatted that I can see. > If you really want to parse it yourself, you can use listToArray, and > then iterate over the array and combine items that are quoted. For > example take this line: > > 1,"barney","boisvert, \"crazy man\", barney","1234 Main Street, Apt 5" > > When you listToArray it, you'll get this: > > [ > '1', > '"barney"', > '"boisvert', > ' \"crazy man\"', > ' barney"', > '"1234 Main Street', > ' Apt 5"' > ] > > Note the position of the double quotes in the items. What you need to > do is find items that START with a double quote, and then combine them > with the following elements until you find an element that ENDS with a > double quote. You'll need to handle the case when the current item is > the whole string (in the case of the second element), and when the > ending quote is escaped (the forth item). > > In this particular case you need to remove the quotes from item 2 > (since it's a whole string to itself), and you need to combine items > 3, 4 and 5 (3 starts with a quote, 5 ends with a quote). The quotes > in item 4 are escaped, so they should be ignored for combination, and > then the backslashes should be removed after the fact. Note that > you'll need to deal with double-escaping. As you can see, it's a > mess, so I'd highly recommend the third-party library. ;) See, the issue is that there is no escaped quotes to show it's part of the field. 3270,5101650,"Dewey, Cheatum & Howe ", 0 , 0 ,0.00,0.00,9.25,-9.25 3270,5101650,Phillip Vector , 34 ," 3,161.00 ",92.97,79.25,61.76,17.50 3270,5101650,"James P. Kardone JR., P.C. ", 0 , 0 ,0.00,0.00,9.25,-9.25 So I'm not sure how to determine the end quote. I suppose I can set a flag if I have started with a quote and unset the flag when I encounter another quote... But I was hoping I didn't have to loop over every character to do it. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:329316 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
