Posted by Bosconian on 12/07/06 17:05

"Tim Roberts" <timr@probo.com> wrote in message
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> "Bosconian" <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:
>>
>>I need a comma delimited regular expression pattern with the followng
>>restrictions:
>>
>>no leading and trailing white space
>>no trailing comma
>>double quoted numeric/alpha pairs
>>each pair on a separate line
>>
>>For example:
>>
>>"1","Peter"
>>"2","Paul"
>>"3","Mary"
>
> I don't think you really meant to ask for a regular expression. If you
> want to parse a comma-separated file, use the tools for parsing
> comma-separated files: fgetcsv.
> --
> Tim Roberts, timr@probo.com
> Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.

I'm looking to validate the data so that it conforms to the aforementioned
pattern before sending it to fgetcsv().

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