From: Dany Cayouette <danyc@...>
Date: 2004-10-01T07:10:01+09:00
Subject: Re: Regexp question


> But for further clarification:
> How should 'a;b\\;;c' be split?
Guess is that it should be
 ["a", "b\", nil, "c"]

characters escaped by backslash at semi-colon, colon and backslash i.e.

; => \;   : => \:  \ => \\

> If backslashs can be escaped (and you'd want that because otherwise you 
> can't have a field "b\" its more difficult.
> 
> And maybe the CSV library can help you here.

thanks,
Dany