CSV : Java Glossary

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CSV

comma separated value. A file of ASCII fields separated by commas. Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, and SQL can often import some variant on this format.

apple,"wild cherry",peach
pear,plum,"apricot"
mango,payaya,guava
"orange, Valencia",  lemon, lime
"""extra virgin"" olive", palm, date

Usually fields containing embedded spaces or commas are contained in " marks, but there are other conventions. Quotes (") inside quoted fields are doubled. Europeans often use ; and Perl aficionados use tab to separate fields instead of commas. Sybase SQL import uses ' instead of ".

CSVReader and CSVWriter are available with source.

CSV Objects
CSV Reader in C#
CSV-JDBC
CSVReader in Java
CSVReader.com
DataPipeline
Open CSV
Ricebridge

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