Comments on: Multibyte-safe CSV Parser

By: Kiril

Kiril — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 00:53:00 +0000

A very good post.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 10:12:14 +0000

This line isn’t correctly handled:
“lorem”“lorem”,”“”lorem”“lorem”“”,”lorem,lorem”,”“”lorem,lorem”“”,”“”lorem””,”“lorem”“”

Output:

array(5) {
[0]=>
‘lorem”lorem’
[1]=>
’”“lorem”lorem”,”lorem’
[2]=>
‘lorem,”“lorem’
[3]=>
‘lorem”,”“lorem”’
[4]=>
’”lorem””’
}

It should be:

array(5) {
[0]=>
‘lorem”lorem’
[1]=>
’”lorem”lorem”’
[2]=>
‘lorem,lorem’
[3]=>
’”lorem,lorem”’
[4]=>
’”lorem”,”lorem”’
}

By: dave

dave — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 07:10:28 +0000

Cheers Matthew – thanks for the feedback, I missed that… i’ll see if i can figure something out

By: Matthew

Matthew — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 22:22:52 +0000

Awesome code. Great replacement for fgetcsv which is useless.

However, I have found one issue. It doesnt correctly handle “”, representing an empty element when the escaper and enclosers are both ”

It turns “”, into “”“”,

Right now I have am doing
$line = str_replace(’””,’, ’,’, $line);
but obviously this is not a correct fix and will break if there really is escaped doulbe quotes within the element.