OpenEuphoria

Re: Finding the end of string with escapes

• Posted by "Lucius L. Hilley III" <lhilley at CDC.NET> Mar 27, 2000
• 570 views

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> Sender:       Euphoria Programming for MS-DOS
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> Poster:       budmeister1 at JUNO.COM
> Subject:      Finding the end of string with escapes
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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


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