Hi
We have a regex/requirement to extract col1,col2,col3,col4 everytime. But the data may not contain col3 onwards everytime.
How to write regex , so it will be forgiving and extract what it has got, rather than failing for the entire line?
(?[^\"]*?)\",\"(?[^\"]*?)\",\"(?[^\"]*?)\",\"(?[^\"]*?)\"
below is dataset
"r1col1","r1col2"
"r1col1","r1col2","r1col3"
"r3col1","r3col2","r3col3","r3col4"
"r4col1","r4col2","r4col3","r4col4","r4col5","r4col6","r4col7"
in above regex, it is failing for Line1 and Line2, but rather prefer to give atleast `col1` and `col2` if it doesn't find others.
https://regex101.com/r/Bkle5V/1
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