12 May 2004 - java_dev (original) (raw)

Hey guys, another irritating question:

Is there any way you can get StringTokenizer to ignore commas inside quotation marks?

I have a file with values seperated by commas, but there are also commas inside the values (which are inclosed in double qoutes)

an example of the file is this:

@property{
photo = "6.jpg",
location = "Sweetbrier Lane",
type = "detached house",
parking = "garage",
bedrooms = "4",
heating = "gas",
rooms = "20ft lounge, dining room, breakfast room, cloakroom, study",
gardens = "lovely",
price = "oiro 300000",
also = "galleried landing"
}

@property
{
location = "Bow", price = "139950", type = "link house",
bedrooms = "2", heating = "oil", parking = "for 2 cars",
also = "double glazing", photo = "18.jpg"
}

I had the file parsing fine until the properties without line breaks, so I tried splitting them using the commas, but it was also splitting the variables apart.