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    <p>I'm going to clarify this a bit. If you have a user formatted file that has a predictable format (ie the user has generated the data out of EXCEL or similar program) then you are way better off using an exising parser that is well tested.</p> <p>Scenarios like the following are just a few examples that manual parsing will have problems with:</p> <pre><code>"column 1", 2, 0104400, $1,300, "This is an interestion question, he said" </code></pre> <p>.. and there are more with escaping, file formats etc that can be a headache for roll your own.</p> <p>If you do that, then ensure you get one that can tollerate differences in columns per row as it can make a difference.</p> <p>If, on the other hand, you know what's going into the data which is common in system generated files then using CSV parsers will cause more problems than they solve. For example, I have dealt with scenarios where the first part is fixed and can be strongly typed, but there are following parts in a row that are not. This can also happen if you're parsing flat file data in fixed width scenarios from legacy databases. A csv solution makes assumptions we don't want and is not the right solution in many of those cases.</p> <p>If that is the case and you just want to strip out quotes after splitting on commas, then try a bit of linq. This can also be extended to replace specific characters you are worried about.</p> <pre><code>line.Split(',').Select(i =&gt; i.Replace("\"", "")).ToArray() </code></pre> <p>Hope that clears up all the conflicting advice.</p>
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    1. COThanks for that Andrew, but I was assuming he knew what he was doing and how to extend this to remove the specific characters he wanted to remove. I could on the other hand write out my CSV parser helpers, but then he wouldn't learn anything would he?
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    3. COOk fellas. Answer updated to take this ASSUMPTION into account. Fact is I assumed the question was literal, and some assumed the question was dealing with a scenario he has not specified in the question. Both can be right... consider it cleared up. No mention of CSV in his question.
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