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SalesForce Apex CSV Parser
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/** | |
* Used to read a delimited file. | |
*/ | |
public class SSSCsvReader { | |
private String delim = ','; | |
// the input data | |
private String[] buffer; | |
public SSSCsvReader(String data){ | |
this.buffer = data.split('\n'); | |
} | |
public SSSCsvReader(String data, String delim){ | |
this.buffer = data.split('\n'); | |
this.delim = delim; | |
} | |
/** | |
* Read and parse next available line. Return null if end of stream. | |
*/ | |
public String[] readLine(){ | |
if(buffer.size() == 0) | |
return null; | |
String line = this.buffer.remove(0); | |
String[] parts = new String[] {}; | |
while(line != ''){ | |
Integer next = 0; | |
if(line.startsWith('"')){ | |
line = line.substring(1); // strip initial | |
Integer quoteIndex = findQuote(line, 0); | |
while(quoteIndex == -1){ | |
if(buffer.size() == 0){ | |
// EOT! | |
quoteIndex = line.length(); | |
} else { | |
// grab the next line | |
Integer skip = line.length(); | |
line += '\n' + this.buffer.remove(0); | |
quoteIndex = findQuote(line, skip); | |
} | |
} | |
// advance to comma | |
next = quoteIndex + 1; | |
parts.add(line.substring(0, quoteIndex).replace('""', '"')); | |
} else { | |
next = line.indexOf(this.delim, next); | |
if(next == -1) | |
next = line.length(); | |
// NB in Substring, "endindex" is the index of the character AFTER the last index to get | |
parts.add(line.substring(0, next)); | |
} | |
if(next == line.length() - 1) | |
// case of a terminating comma. | |
parts.add(''); | |
line = next < line.length() ? line.substring(next+1) : ''; | |
} | |
if(parts.size() == 0) | |
// empty string - we still want to return something... | |
parts.add(''); | |
return parts; | |
} | |
static private Pattern quotePattern = Pattern.compile('(?<!")"(?!")'); | |
/** | |
* Find next quote in the line | |
*/ | |
private Integer findQuote(String line, Integer skip){ | |
Matcher m = quotePattern.matcher(line); | |
m.region(skip, m.regionEnd()); | |
if(!m.find()) | |
return -1; | |
return m.start(); | |
} | |
} |
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The solution won't work if a cell (in CSV) has a value ending with a double quote.
In the following example, Cell 2 "Test" won't be recognised correctly
Cell 1;"Cell 2 ""Test""";Cell 3