Parsing CSV input with a RegEx in java

Question

I know, now I have two problems. But I\'m having fun!

I started with this advice not to try and split, but instead to match on what is an acceptable field, and expa

Answer 1

Operator precedence. Basically there is none. It's all left to right. So the or (|) is applying to the closing quote lookahead and the comma lookahead

Try:

(?:(?<=")([^"]*)(?="))|(?<=,|^)([^,]*)(?=,|$)