CSV

CSV stands for comma-separated values, which is a file format that is used to store tabular data in plain texts. This data is stored in the format of both numbers and text and can be read in CSV files. Lines in the text file represent rows of a table and commas in a line separate fields from tables in a row. There are different ways to implement CSV files and the format can be modified to handle richer table content (example: allowing a different field separator character, extensions to allow numbers, the separator character, and newline characters). CSV is a simple file format that is widely supported, and it is a delimited data format that has fields that are separated by the comma character and a records row that is terminated by newlines. The CSV file format is very simple and is supported by almost all spreadsheets and database management systems.