Splitting a string and ignoring the delimiter inside quotes

Question

I am using .NET\'s String.Split method to break up a string using commas, but I want to ignore strings enclosed in double quotes for the string. I have read that a

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Answer 1

I found below is the easiest way, we can do it

string fruits = "Fruit,10,"Bananas, Oranges, Grapes"";
string[] fruitsArr = Regex.Split(fruits, ",(?=(?:[^\"]*\"[^\"]*\")*(?![^\"]*\"))");

Output:

fruitsArr[0] = "Fruit"
fruitsArr[1] = "10"
fruitsArr[2] = "\"Bananas, Oranges, Grapes\""

If you need pure string data so you can do it something like,

fruitsArr[2].Replace("\"", "")