Question

I need to reorganize an archaic cvs database so that it can be imported into ecommerce software with the correct special field names.

Here is some code I was matching against.
[id,category,manufacturers,model]

"1","3","Samsung","Galaxy S III"
"2","3","HTC","One X"

My regex

".*?".*?".*?".*?(".*?")

I basically need to replace only the manufacturer with a slightly more complex object literal like

{manufacturers: 'Samsung'}

but I can’t seem to figure out how to selectively replace the third match.
I know I can split the string and extract the data I need, but I don’t know how to replace the match so that the output variable looks like:

"1","3",{manufacturers: 'Samsung'},"Galaxy S III"
"2","3",{manufacturers: 'HTC'},"One X"

Thanks for helping me!

Answer 1

Match this:

"(.*?)","(.*?)","(.*?)","(.*?)"

Replace by this:

"$1","$2",{manufacturers: '$3'},"$4"

---

Example:

var s='"1","3","Samsung","Galaxy S III"';
var p='"(.*?)","(.*?)","(.*?)","(.*?)"';
var r='"$1","$2",{manufacturers: \'$3\'},"$4"';
console.log(s.replace(new RegExp(p,"g"),r));

Output:

"1","3",{manufacturers: 'Samsung'},"Galaxy S III"