CSVReader - bug when using " for escape char

Question

I am using OpenCSV.

I have a CSVReader trying to parse a CSV file.
That file has quote char \" and separator char , an

Answer 1

The CSVReader is not fully RFC4180 compliant. Use their newer CSV reader (RFC4180Parser):

RFC4180Parser rfc4180Parser = new RFC4180ParserBuilder().build();
CSVReaderBuilder csvReaderBuilder = new CSVReaderBuilder(
    new FileReader("input.csv"));

CSVReader reader = csvReaderBuilder
    .withCSVParser(rfc4180Parser)
    .build();

To read a String line formatted as a CSV:

String test = "ballet 24\"\" classes";
String[] columns = new RFC4180Parser().parseLine(test);

To use the reader (an alternative is reader.readNext()):

for (String[] line : reader.readAll()) {
  for (String s : line) {
    System.out.println(s);
  }
}

See http://opencsv.sourceforge.net/#rfc4180parser for more details.

Code taken from GeekPrompt