Help with Split function

[Gogi]

Hi all,

I have got a comma delimited file which uses quotes as text qualifiers. for example "Mr XXXXX","XX Street","" ....

I am using the split function to store values in a string array but my problem is when i have a field that contains a comma within the quotes eg. "XX, Street". It splits these in to different array positions.

Is there any way of avoiding this?

Thanks for your help.

Cheers

[figa]

Hi Gogi,

Im not all to familiar with that Split function, are there parameters you can add?

If not i suggest making your own functions that would save everything within the "quotes".

GL, Figa

This wont work?
Split(""a,d","b","c"" , """")

[Gogi]

Hi Figa

I am kind of working on my own function, but was wondering whether there is an easy way already out there. No point in reinventing the wheel :-))

thanks

[Half]

The proper way would be to use regex but I can't provide you with a suggestion as it's beyond me. In the spilt function you can use whole strings as a delimiter, not just single characters. So, use ","(in code """,""") as a delimiter instead of just the comma.

You will still have to take care of the quotations marks (remove them from the first and last splitted strings or add them to all the strings in between respectively). Or wait for a regex suggestion.

[Gogi]

Hi Half

thanks for the reply. I have been experimenting along those lines.

cheers

tolga

[gigemboy]

Check out one of my codebank submissions in my sig, there is a CSV and TAB file parser that utilizes Regex. Feel free to use the code or just use it as a reference...