Parsing a CSV file

Hello, I am trying to parse a CSV (comma separated file) file to get the separate elements. The format of each line of the file is as follows: R001,23,"2,5" Note that the 3rd field "2,5" is enclosed within quotes as it has commas within the field itself. This is a standard file created when an Excel file is saved as a CSV file. What I need after parsing this is an array with the elements being: Element 0 - R001 Element 1 - 23 Element 2 - 2,5 Standard split command gives 4 elements instead of 3. I know I can do this by some brute programming, but is there an elegant way out. Note that I am not using PHP 4.0 and hence PHP4 specific features are not available to me as yet! Regards, Sharat