Re: [Boost-users] Regex - Reading CSV files like MS Excel does

Jeff Dunlap wrote:

The expression regex e(",") handles files in a clean format such as:

field 1,field 2,field 3

I would like to read some CSV files where there may be fields that contain a comma (enclosed in ""):

1999,Smith, Mike, "Smith, Mike", 55 1999,Doe, Jane, "Doe, Jane", 45

And if possible, I would like to handle commas and quotes within the field:

1999,Doe, Jane, "Doe, Jane "Happy Gurl"", 45

googling regex csv yields several hits the first of which is: http://geekswithblogs.net/mwatson/archive/2004/09/04/10658.aspx Jeff