How can I parse a CSV string with JavaScript, which contains comma in data?

Question

I have the following type of string

var string = "\'string, duppi, du\', 23, lala"

I want to split the string into an array on each

Answer 1

I liked FakeRainBrigand's answer, however it contains a few problems: It can not handle whitespace between a quote and a comma, and does not support 2 consecutive commas. I tried editing his answer but my edit got rejected by reviewers that apparently did not understand my code. Here is my version of FakeRainBrigand's code. There is also a fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/xTezm/46/

String.prototype.splitCSV = function() {
        var matches = this.match(/(\s*"[^"]+"\s*|\s*[^,]+|,)(?=,|$)/g);
        for (var n = 0; n < matches.length; ++n) {
            matches[n] = matches[n].trim();
            if (matches[n] == ',') matches[n] = '';
        }
        if (this[0] == ',') matches.unshift("");
        return matches;
}

var string = ',"string, duppi, du" , 23 ,,, "string, duppi, du",dup,"", , lala';
var parsed = string.splitCSV();
alert(parsed.join('|'));