RE: [Pythoncard-users] CSV for PythonCard

[Kevin A. <al...@se...>]

> From: Magnus Lie Hetland
>
> By the way, I found this Perl snippet <shudder>
>
> sub parse_csv {
>     my $text = shift;      # record containing comma-separated values
>     my @new  = ();
>     push(@new, $+) while $text =~ m{
>         # the first part groups the phrase inside the quotes.
>         # see explanation of this pattern in MRE
>         "([^\"\\]*(?:\\.[^\"\\]*)*)",?
>            |  ([^,]+),?
>            | ,
>        }gx;
>        push(@new, undef) if substr($text, -1,1) eq ',';
>        return @new;      # list of values that were comma-separated
> }
>
> Makes me remember why I use Python <wink>


Which reminds me of a favorite Jamie Zawinski quote:

Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use regular
expressions." Now they have two problems.
   --Jamie Zawinski, in comp.lang.emacs

I saw this while reading http://diveintopython.org/dialect_re.html

ka