1. Finding the end of string with escapes
- Posted by budmeister1 at JUNO.COM
Mar 27, 2000
Hi everyone,
I'm working on the CSV import portion of the EDS Toolbox, and
a problem I'm running into is finding the end of a quote-delimited
string that has escaped quotes in it.
Example: "Uncle Bill says \"Go Gore!\""
I want the location of the last quote, and ignore the escaped
quotes. I haven't been able to find a solution sofar... I had
tried recursion, but somehow I got into an infinite loop :)
Thanx in advance,
----->Buddy
budmeister1 at juno.com
http://tenbux.iwarp.com/
2. Re: Finding the end of string with escapes
- Posted by Bernie Ryan <xotron at BUFFNET.NET>
Mar 27, 2000
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Last edited Mar 28, 2000
Set a flag when you see a escape character and save it temporarly
If the next character is a quote then do what ever action you need
for the escape/quote combination ( you didn't say what you are doing
with it )
else output the escape character that you saved and the character
that you just found and reset the flag.
If you find a quote and you don't have a escape flaged then treat
it as a real quote.
3. Re: Finding the end of string with escapes
- Posted by "Lucius L. Hilley III" <lhilley at CDC.NET>
Mar 27, 2000
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Last edited Mar 28, 2000
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> Hi everyone,
>
> I'm working on the CSV import portion of the EDS Toolbox, and
> a problem I'm running into is finding the end of a quote-delimited
> string that has escaped quotes in it.
>
> Example: "Uncle Bill says \"Go Gore!\""
>
> I want the location of the last quote, and ignore the escaped
> quotes. I haven't been able to find a solution sofar... I had
> tried recursion, but somehow I got into an infinite loop :)
>
> Thanx in advance,
>
> ----->Buddy
> budmeister1 at juno.com
> http://tenbux.iwarp.com/
>
Use the search fuction on the Online message archive. I uploaded a
CSV library some time back. The following is a URL that should take
your right where you want to be.
H=0&O=T&T=1
That is the message that I sent. The CSV.ZIP is at the bottom
Lucius L. Hilley III
lhilley at cdc.net
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