Re^3: Parsing a string

[samarzone]

Be aware that the given regular expression has a chance to be broken in some circumstances.

Example:

$s = q[ci,14938340,2,"Monday, February 21, 2011 19:58:06 UTC",34.6953,
+-118.5350,2.2,17.40, 9,"Southern California, \"US\""];
print for $s =~ m[("[^"]+"|[^,]+)(?:,|$)]g;

Output

ci
14938340
2
"Monday, February 21, 2011 19:58:06 UTC"
34.6953
-118.5350
2.2
17.40
 9
"Southern California
 \"US\""