Comma Separated Value (CSV) File Format

This is a common file format for simple spreadsheet and database transfer between applications.

A CSV file consists of numbers and textual labels, with fields separated by commas and records by a line separator.

The following demonstrate most of the characteristics of the CSV file format:

123.456, 7.8E9, "textstring1", "text""string2", "text,string3" " text string 4 "
1 2 3 4 5 6
  1. Numbers do not appear in quotes.
  2. Scientific notation is understood with both upper-case E and lower-case e being acceptable.
  3. Text strings appear in double quotes.
  4. Double quotes characters can be included in text strings and are represented as two double quotes characters. The example above should be interpreted as text"string2.
  5. Commas may appear anywhere within text strings.
  6. Spaces may appear anywhere within text strings.

White space (spaces or TAB characters) on either side of comma separators is ignored.

White space within numbers is erroneous.

PipeDream treats any of these single characters or character pairs:

as line separators.