Re: PHP-Dev/CVS list activity summary

On December 2, 2001 04:18 pm, Richard Lynch wrote: > This summary ROCKS! Well, I must admit that I know what ideas to steal... ;) > >REQ: Request for csv_explode() function > >Justin Plock has requested a function that is a variant on explode(). The > > new function would work like explode(), but would correctly handle more > > complex CSV-like data formats. > > Does he not like: > http://php.net/split > for some reason?... > Maybe it's over-kill for CSV, or maybe it's not even usable, since > CSV is such a goofy system... I think that it is a case of convenience. The regexes for parsing CSV data would be pretty ugly. :) We already have fget_csv() -- hacking that into a string function should be pretty easy. :) -- Zak Greant PHP Quality Assurance Team http://qa.php.net/ "We must be the change we wish to see." - M. K. Ghandi