How can I parse a CSV string with JavaScript, which contains comma in data?

Question

I have the following type of string

var string = "\'string, duppi, du\', 23, lala"

I want to split the string into an array on each

Answer 1

People seemed to be against RegEx for this. Why?

(\s*'[^']+'|\s*[^,]+)(?=,|$)

Here's the code. I also made a fiddle.

String.prototype.splitCSV = function(sep) {
  var regex = /(\s*'[^']+'|\s*[^,]+)(?=,|$)/g;
  return matches = this.match(regex);    
}

var string = "'string, duppi, du', 23, 'string, duppi, du', lala";
var parsed = string.splitCSV();
alert(parsed.join('|'));