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

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

Has Problems with " inside of strings like "Toys"R"Us"

So u should use instead:

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