C regex how to match any string ending with " or any empty string?

Question

I\'m trying to produce code to read input from a comma separated text file line by line. I\'m only interested in 3 of the fields, so I\'m skipping over the rest. Problem is

Answer 1

The following is a basic CSV parser:

void readCSVline(char *line);
char *readCSVfield(char *line, char *buf);
void readCSVdemo(void)
{
    char line[]= "0,,10004,10004,\"Albany Hwy After Galliers Av\",\"\",-32.13649428,116.0176090070,3";
    readCSVline(line);

}
/* readCSVline is where you put your "intelligence* about fields to read
 * and what to do with them
 */
void readCSVline(char *line)
{
    char field1[80], *lineptr=line;
    int nfields=0;

    while (*lineptr) {
        lineptr= readCSVfield(lineptr, field1);
        printf("%s\n", field1);
        nfields++;
    }
    printf("%d fields read.\n", nfields);
}
/* readCSVfield reads a field from a CSV line until the next comma or end-of-line.
 * It returns where the reading stopped.
 */
char *readCSVfield(char *line, char *buf)
{
    int instr= FALSE;   // track whether we are in a string
    char *cptr= line;

    while (*cptr)
    {
        if (instr) {
            if (*cptr=='"') {
                char cc= *++cptr;
                if (cc=='"')        // escaped double quote
                    *buf++ = '"';
                else {
                    *buf='\0';
                    cptr--;
                    instr= FALSE;
                }
            }
            else *buf++ = *cptr;
        }
        else switch (*cptr) {
        case '"': instr= TRUE; break;
        case ',': cptr++; *buf= '\0'; return(cptr);
        case ' ': case '\t': case '\n': case '\r': break;
        default: *buf++ = *cptr;
        }
        cptr++;
    }
    *buf= '\0';
    return(cptr);
}

Note: processing linefeeds in a quoted string

Often the parser is called with a line that the caller has read. To be able to process carriage return/linefeeds that are in a quoted string, the parser must process seeing a \n by getting the next line. The signature for readCSVfield should then include the line buffer and its size.