function CSVToArray( strData, strDelimiter,rowstoread ){ // Check to see if the delimiter is defined. If not, // then default to comma. strDelimiter = (strDelimiter || ","); // Create a regular expression to parse the CSV values. var objPattern = new RegExp( ( // Delimiters. "(\\" + strDelimiter + "|\\r?\\n|\\r|^)" + // Quoted fields. "(?:\"([^\"]*(?:\"\"[^\"]*)*)\"|" + // Standard fields. "([^\"\\" + strDelimiter + "\\r\\n]*))" ), "gi" ); // Create an array to hold our data. Give the array // a default empty first row. var arrData = [[]]; // Create an array to hold our individual pattern // matching groups. var arrMatches = null; // Keep looping over the regular expression matches // until we can no longer find a match. var numread = 0; while (arrMatches = objPattern.exec( strData )){ // Get the delimiter that was found. var strMatchedDelimiter = arrMatches[ 1 ]; // Check to see if the given delimiter has a length // (is not the start of string) and if it matches // field delimiter. If id does not, then we know // that this delimiter is a row delimiter. if ( strMatchedDelimiter.length && (strMatchedDelimiter != strDelimiter)){ numread++; if (rowstoread && rowstoread == numread) break; // Since we have reached a new row of data, // add an empty row to our data array. arrData.push( [] ); } // Now that we have our delimiter out of the way, // let's check to see which kind of value we // captured (quoted or unquoted). if (arrMatches[ 2 ]){ // We found a quoted value. When we capture // this value, unescape any double quotes. var strMatchedValue = arrMatches[ 2 ].replace( new RegExp( "\"\"", "g" ), "\"" ); } else { // We found a non-quoted value. var strMatchedValue = arrMatches[ 3 ]; } // Now that we have our value string, let's add // it to the data array. arrData[ arrData.length - 1 ].push( strMatchedValue ); } // Return the parsed data. return( arrData ); }