How to convert string containg comma into array in ruby 1.9.2?

Question

I have a string like below

 "\"123\",\"Columbia, Gem Of The Ocean\""

I want to convert it into array and I should get an output like below

["123","Columbia, Gem Of The Ocean"]

But when i use split by comma method on string i get an output like below

 ["\"123\"", "\"Columbia", " Gem Of The Ocean\""]

It is splitting "Columbia, Gem Of The Ocean" by "," but i don't want that.

There is a parse_line method of csv but that doesn't work in ruby 1.9.2.

Please suggest some solution. Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Your description and the expected result do not match. You don't want to split it by (all) commas. You want to extract the parts surrounded by double quotation.

string.scan(/".*?"/)

If you don't want the quotations, then

string.scan(/"(.*?)"/).flatten(1)