Problem with escaped quotes

I have got a csv file that is straightly exported from MySQL and I want to read and parse in Node.js. But I get errors whenever it reaches something that has escaped quotes on it. For example, “Foo "Bar"”, “Baz”, “”, “”

This will give error

events.js:141
      throw er; // Unhandled 'error' event
            ^
Error: Parse Error: expected: '"' got: 'B'. at 'Bar" Foo",
at parseEscapedItem(node_modules/fast-csv/lib/parser/parser.js:79:19)

As a workaround, I ended up doing something like this, Reading it line by line and convert \" to "" instead. But it seems not possible to do it using other methods than fromString().

var csv = require("fast-csv");
var byline = require('byline');

var stream = byline(fs.createReadStream("mydata.csv", { encoding: 'utf8' }));
stream.on('data', function(line) {
  line = line.replace(/\\\"/g, '""');

  csv.fromString(line)
    .on("data", function (data) {
      // data 
    })
    .on("end", function () {

    });
});

Would that be potentially a bug?

[dustinsmith1024]

My fault I think you want quote: '\\' instead of escape.

var csv = require("fast-csv");

var line = '"Foo \"Bar\"", "Baz", "", ""';
  csv.fromString(line, { quote:'\\'})
    .on("data", function (data) {
      console.log(data);
    })
    .on("end", function () {

    });

➜  c2fo git:(master) ✗ node test.js
[ '"Foo "Bar""', ' "Baz"', ' ""', ' ""' ]

[doug-martin]

I dont think the solution above is doing what people think it is. It is setting the quote to a \ character basically ignoring quoting in the examples.

@Jeerjmin can you provide a small example so I can try to reproduce and fix the underlying issue. Also what version of the package are you using?