A small CSV Splitter in C#

Mahendra Kumar Srivastava

1.00/5 (1 vote)

Oct 7, 2010

CPOL

14726

Gives splitted values taking csv string as input.

public string[] SplitCSVString(string csvString)
        {
            // CSV Reg Ex: ",(?!(?&lt;=(?:^|,)\s*\x22(?:[^\x22]|\x22\x22|\\x22)*,)(?:[^\x22]|\x22\x22|\\x22)*\x22\s*(?:,|$))"
            string strPattern = ",(?!(?&lt;=(?:^|,)\\s*\\x22(?:[^\\x22]|\\x22\\x22|\\\\x22)*,)(?:[^\\x22]|\\x22\\x22|\\\\x22)*\\x22\\s*(?:,|$))";
            System.Text.RegularExpressions.Regex csvSplitter = new System.Text.RegularExpressions.Regex(strPattern);
            return csvSplitter.Split(csvString);
        }