DEFINITION
COMMA-SEPARATED VARIABLE FILE (CSV)
CSV is a common file format used to transfer organized data between databases,
spreadsheets, and other programs that handle organized data. Characters
in a CSV file are all plain text ASCII characters. Each line up to the
line-end character(s) (formerly called the carriage return-line feed from
older typewriter technology) is a record. The fields (or items) within
a record are divided by a comma. Hence the “comma-separated.”
Each record must have the same number of fields (commas). . . .