Split using delimiter except when delimiter is escaped

Question

I\'m reading clipboard data coming from excel using

var stream = (System.IO.Stream) ( Forms.Clipboard.GetDataObject() ).GetData( Forms.DataFormats.CommaSepara

Answer 1

I agree with Kyle regarding your string probably not being consistent.

Instead of Kyle's first step you could use

string[] vals = Regex.Split(value, @"\s*\"",\s*");