ABAP RegEx met CSV and said 'I'll keep a Tab on you'

I wrote about XML processing in my previous posts:

• Discovering a Hidden Gem :Generate Simple Transformation for XML in ABAP
• Generate Simple Transformation for XML in ABAP - Part II

As much as we like to use XML for data-exchange, there are still a lot of legacy(pre-XML) data files floating between the systems. CSV files are used for ages and there are already some functions available in ABAP for the purpose. But all these standard or custom methods of parsing CSV, require more than 10 lines of code.
[ Image and comic from XKCD ]

Arrival of RegEx [ Regular Expressions ] in ABAP should be able to put an end to the miseries, developers have been facing with string ( match/find/replace ) operations. Read more »