I've been looking at those googled expressions and they don't seem to handle
the CSV file the way they should.
I'll continue experimenting or use Boost.Tokenizer for this purpose as
suggested by Eric Malenfant.
Thanks
"Jeff Flinn"
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
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