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in reply to CSV and regex mixups

you do need to strip/convert any commas and quotes from your input or csv::text will get it wrong. you should also strip any non-printing chars and semicolons etc., ie define a strict set of characters to allow rather than dis-allowing some. this should be a no brainer for you if you just consider the input one at a time; not the entire assembled string.
btw - in your regex with .? that stands for zero or one occurences of any character...not any number of characters, as i believe you intended. i think you were after .+ match one or more times.