From: Ari Brown <ari@...>
Date: 2007-09-28T20:23:11+09:00
Subject: Re: simple regexp question


On Sep 27, 2007, at 11:31 PM, Ak 756 wrote:

> Hi
>
> I have a .txt file which contains one line data as
>
> "George",33,"engineer, r&d department, this company","234-7554-344"
>
> I use name,age,memo,tel=File.open(filename).split(',') to collect  
> values
> but get wrong value for memo and tel. I want string "engineer, r&d
> department, this company" not be splited by comma, how can I do that?

fastercsv might help. It's great, AND a lot faster for parsing comma  
separated values.

~ Ari
English is like a pseudo-random number generator - there are a  
bajillion rules to it, but nobody cares.