Regular expression for parsing CSV in PHP

Question

I already managed to split the CSV file using this regex: \"/,(?=(?:[^\\\"]\\\"[^\\\"]\\\")(?![^\\\"]\\\"))/\"

But I ended up with an array of stri

Answer 1

For those of you who wan't to use regex instead of fgetcsv. Here is a complete example how to create a html table from csv using a regex.

    $data = file_get_contents('test.csv');
    $pieces = explode("\n", $data);

    $html .= "\n";
    foreach (array_filter($pieces) as $line) {

            $html .= "\n";
            $keywords = preg_split('/,(?=(?:[^\"]*\"[^\"]*\")*(?![^\"]*\"))/', $line,-1,PREG_SPLIT_DELIM_CAPTURE);

            foreach ($keywords as $col) {
                    $html .= "\n";
            }
            $html .= "\n";
    }
    $html .= "
".trim($col, '"')."
\n";