CSVToArray

by yasumodev

HTML

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JavaScript

var data = "\
aa<>bb<>cc\n\
11<>22<>33\n\
";
try{
	var ary = CSVToArray(data, "<>");
	alert(ary.length);
	alert(ary[1][1]);
}catch(e){
	alert(e);
}
/*
// This will parse a delimited string into an array of
// arrays. The default delimiter is the comma, but this
// can be overriden in the second argument.
function CSVToArray( strData, strDelimiter ){
	// Check to see if the delimiter is defined. If not,
	// then default to comma.
	strDelimiter = (strDelimiter || ",");
	// Create a regular expression to parse the CSV values.
	var objPattern = new RegExp(
		(
			// Delimiters.
			"(\\" + strDelimiter + "|\\r?\\n|\\r|^)" +
			// Quoted fields.
			"(?:\"([^\"]*(?:\"\"[^\"]*)*)\"|" +
			// Standard fields.
			"([^\"\\" + strDelimiter + "\\r\\n]*))"
		),
		"gi"
		);
	// Create an array to hold our data. Give the array
	// a default empty first row.
	var arrData = [[]];
	// Create an array to hold our individual pattern
	// matching groups.
	var arrMatches = null;
	// Keep looping over the regular expression matches
	// until we can no longer find a match.
	while (arrMatches = objPattern.exec( strData )){
		// Get the delimiter that was found.
		var strMatchedDelimiter = arrMatches[ 1 ];
		// Check to see if the given delimiter has a length
		// (is not the start of string) and if it matches
		// field delimiter. If id does not, then we know
		// that this delimiter is a row delimiter.
		if (
			strMatchedDelimiter.length &&
			(strMatchedDelimiter != strDelimiter)
			){
			// Since we have reached a new row of data,
			// add an empty row to our data array.
			arrData.push( [] );
		}
		// Now that we have our delimiter out of the way,
		// let's check to see which kind of value we
		// captured (quoted or unquoted).
		if (arrMatches[ 2 ]){
			// We found a quoted value. When we capture
			// this value, unescape any double quotes.
			var strMatchedValue = arrMatches[ 2 ].replace(
				new RegExp( "\"\"", "g" ),
				"\""
				);
		} else {
			// We found a non-quoted...