note 28780 added to function.explode

I've run across certain CSV (comma delimited) files that do not follow the standard "quote the sections that have commas as part of the string" formatting. Instead, these files escape the commas that are part of the field with a backslash. Here's some code to explode a CSV string formatted in such a way into an array: function csv_explode($expldchar, $str) { if(strlen($expldchar) != 1 || strlen($str) == 0) { return 0; } $idx=0; $arr=0; while($idx < strlen($str)) { if($str[$idx] == '\\') { $idx+=2; $newstrarr[$arr] = $newstrarr[$arr] . $str[$idx]; } elseif($str[$idx] == ',') $arr++; else $newstrarr[$arr] = $newstrarr[$arr] . $str[$idx]; $idx++; } return $newstrarr; } (Disclaimer: I'm not a professional programmer and, more than likely, improvements and efficiencies can be made to the code segment above.) -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.explode.php http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=edit+28780 http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+28780 http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=reject+28780