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Subject Protocol csv parsingLevel Entry–Senior~20 minCommon in Networking & APIs · Algorithms & data structures interviewsIndustries Software development, IT services

Question

Parse a single CSV line into fields, respecting RFC 4180 quoting. Fields are comma-separated. A field may be wrapped in double quotes, inside which commas are literal and a doubled quote ("") represents a single literal quote character. Return the list of field strings (quotes removed, escapes resolved). An empty input string yields a list containing one empty string.

Implement
parse_csv_line(line: str) → list[str]
Examples
in["\"hello, world\",x"]out["hello, world","x"]
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