Splitting string on commas when data can contain commas

Question

I have a CSV file (which I didn\'t design and I can\'t change now nor will I ever be able to change it) that contains lines like the following:

\"Surname, Firs

Answer 1

I would suggest using a CSV parser library - there are other cases that you wouldn't have thought of (new line as part of a quoted field).

The VisualBasic namespace has a nice library that can help - the TextFieldParser.