Re: splitting a CSV line in half

Roedy Green

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05-07-2008

On Wed, 07 May 2008 09:52:55 -0400, Rex Mottram <> wrote,
quoted or indirectly quoted someone who said :

>. Can anyone suggest a
>more elegant technique?

you could scan for , incrementing on each hit. When you find n, split
the string it two with substr + substr.. That would be fast, straight
forward, but perhaps not quite as terse as your current solution.
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