# CSV output

**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/csv-output/4483
**Category:** Export
**Created:** [February 18, 2007, 11:26pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/csv-output/4483 "2007-02-18T23:26:19Z")
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### Author: ![DetlevD](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/detlevd/32/123_2.png) [@DetlevD](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/DetlevD)
#### Post date: [February 18, 2007, 11:56pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/csv-output/4483/2 "2007-02-18T23:56:32Z")

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> [@eusty](#):
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> If you have a comma in a string it throws the export out by one cell.

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

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