On Sunday 04 November 2001 12:43 pm, you wrote:

> and what happens when the string is
>
> '"abc",system("rm -rf ."),123'
>
> or something similar?

It obviously will not work for ALL strings.  I am only concerned with lines 
from a csv file, such as might be exported from MS Access.  I do have a 
problem though:  ', , ,'  Empty fields cause eval to fail :-(