Re: delineating by comma where commas inside quotation marks don't count

2007-10-26 Thread Junior
"Dan Bishop" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Oct 24, 8:56 pm, "Junior" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I want to open a text file for reading and delineate it by comma. I also >> want any data >> surrounded by quotation marks that has a comma in it, not to count th

Re: delineating by comma where commas inside quotation marks don't count

2007-10-25 Thread Travis Brady
On 10/24/07, Dan Bishop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Oct 24, 8:56 pm, "Junior" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I want to open a text file for reading and delineate it by comma. I > also > > want any data > > surrounded by quotation marks that has a comma in it, not to count the > > commas insi

Re: delineating by comma where commas inside quotation marks don't count

2007-10-24 Thread equand
On Oct 25, 3:56 am, "Junior" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I want to open a text file for reading and delineate it by comma. I also > want any data > surrounded by quotation marks that has a comma in it, not to count the > commas inside the > quotation marks > > if the file testfile.txt contains th

Re: delineating by comma where commas inside quotation marks don't count

2007-10-24 Thread Dan Bishop
On Oct 24, 8:56 pm, "Junior" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I want to open a text file for reading and delineate it by comma. I also > want any data > surrounded by quotation marks that has a comma in it, not to count the > commas inside the > quotation marks Use the csv module. -- http://mail.py

delineating by comma where commas inside quotation marks don't count

2007-10-24 Thread Junior
I want to open a text file for reading and delineate it by comma. I also want any data surrounded by quotation marks that has a comma in it, not to count the commas inside the quotation marks if the file testfile.txt contains the following; 5,Tuesday,"May is a spring month",Father's Day 1,Satu