On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 7:44 PM, Sean Farrow wrote:

Hi:

I know there is a spirit example to parse csv or any list-separated file. What I need to do is to be able to parse files with embedded “,” characters, quotes and line breaks in.

How would i go about doing this?

Usually better to ask on the Spirit list, but perhaps something like this: *((('"'>>*(('\'>>char_)|~char_('"'))>>)'"'|~(char_(',')|eol))%',')%eol Will parse into vector< vector< string > > That would parse this: 1,2,3,4 hi,1,y,o,,8 hi,1,y,o,\n,8 hi,1,"y,o",,8 hi,"multi line and embedded\"quote",1 Into this: vector< vector< string > >( vector<string>("1","2","3","4"), vector<string>("hi","1","y","o","","8"), vector<string>("hi","1","y","o","\n","8"), vector<string>("hi","1","y,o","","8"), vector<string>("hi","multi\nline and embedded\"quote","1"), ) Basically it parses characters separated by commas, with end of line terminators being an end of a row, unless surrounded with quotes where everything is taken verbatim, except \" which is taken as a " (well, \n where n is *any* character is n, so \\ will be \ and \g will be g and so forth... Simple, but it works.