William James  <w_a_x_man@yahoo.com> wrote:
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| rpw3@rpw3.org (Rob Warnock) wrote:
| > It handles your sample input:
| >     > (parse-csv-line (read-line))
| >     "He said ""Stop, thief!"" and collapsed.",88,"x,y"
| >
| >     ("He said Stop, thief! and collapsed." "88" "x,y")
| 
| I think that it should be
|   ("He said \"Stop, thief!\" and collapsed." "88" "x,y")
+---------------

Oops! Sorry, you're right. The specification I coded that to
didn't support doubling double-quotes to quote them. For the
data it was dealing with, it was considered a "feature" that
an input string like this:

    some "text, here," with "commas, yes?",more text here

would parse as this:

    ("some text, here, with commas, yes?" "more text here")

But as I said, "[it] may need tweaking for some applications"...  ;-}


-Rob

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