regex to split line (csv file)

Question

I am not good in regex. Can some one help me out to write regex for me?

I may have values like this while reading csv file.

\"Artist,Name\",Album,12-SCS
\         


        

Answer 1

Just adding the solution I worked on this morning.

var regex = new Regex("(?<=^|,)(\"(?:[^\"]|\"\")*\"|[^,]*)");

foreach (Match m in regex.Matches("<-- input line -->"))
{
    var s = m.Value; 
}

As you can see, you need to call regex.Matches() per line. It will then return a MatchCollection with the same number of items you have as columns. The Value property of each match is, obviously, the parsed value.

This is still a work in progress, but it happily parses CSV strings like:

2,3.03,"Hello, my name is ""Joshua""",A,B,C,,,D