regulars expressions ?

[Jaime Wyant]

Maybe, you need the csv module:

import csv
mystring = "\"test1, test2\", test, 42"

# The one argument to csv.reader is an iterable object
# You could use a file here...
csv_reader = csv.reader([mystring])

for line in csv_reader:
    print line
    
['test1, test2', ' test', ' 42']

hth,
jw

On 6/28/05, scott <scott at alussinan.org> wrote:
> hi people !
> 
> <newbie>
> i got some trouble with regular expressions
> i need to split a string like this on the ',' character :
> 
> mystring = ""\test1, test2\", test, 42"
> 
> i wanna get something (a list) like this (3 elements) :
> "test1, test2"
> test
> 42
> 
> but the only thing i get is a list like this (4 elements) :
> "test1"
> "test2"
> test
> 42
> 
> each element is separated by ',' but 1st element which is delimited by
> '"' may contain ',' character inside.
> 
> so the regular expression i need is something like :
> split each element using ',' delimiter but if ',' delimiter is included
> between '"' please do not split
> </newbie>
> 
> 1st question is : does someone has understood the question ?
> 2nd question is : does someone has an answer ?
> 
> thanks people
> 
> scott
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