Parse CSV, ignoring commas inside string literals in VBA?

Question

I have a VBA application that runs every day. It checks a folder where CSVs are downloaded automatically, and adds their contents to a database. When parsing them, I reali

Answer 1

Try This! Make sure to have the "Microsoft VBScript Regular Expressions 5.5" ticked on References under Tools.

Function Splitter(line As String, n As Integer)
Dim s() As String
Dim regex As Object
    Set regex = CreateObject("vbscript.regexp")
    regex.IgnoreCase = True
    regex.Global = True
    regex.Pattern = ",(?=([^\""]*\""[^\""]*\"")*[^\""]*$)"
    s = split(regex.Replace(line, "|/||\|"), "|/||\|")
    Splitter = s(n - 1)
End Function