The original CSV convention is:
- numbers = 123
- decimals = 123.45
- strings = "hello, world"
A line from a CSV file can look like this for example:
"Heroes","Meat Loaf","100% Rock (CD2)","2003","02/18","05:09",11299801,44100,123.54,"Comment, that has a comma included"
There are some variations beside the original CSV convention:
SSV Semicolon Separated Values
TSV Tab Separated Values
and so on ...
Nearly all other characters are allowed to be a separator, if the target application can understand this. The one separator character must be unique to the 'CSV' file.
DD.20070219.0149