Comma-separated values

Comma-separated values
Filename extension.csv
Internet media typetext/csv
Uniform Type Identifier (UTI)public.comma-separated-values-text
UTI conformationpublic.delimited-values-text
Type of formatmulti-platform, serial data streams
Container fordatabase information organized as field separated lists
StandardRFC 4180

Comma-separated values (CSV) is a plain text data format for storing tabular data where the fields (values) of a record are separated by a comma as the delimiter and each record is a line (i.e. newline is the delimiter). CSV is commonly used in software that generally deals with tabular data such as a database or a spreadsheet. Benefits cited for using CSV include simplicity of use and human readability. CSV is a form of delimiter-separated values. A CSV file is a file that contains CSV-formatted data.

CSV is not limited to a particular character encoding but should be and is commonly used with UTF-8, particularly because it does not provide a way to indicate the character encoding.

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