Software:CSV application support

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The comma-separated values file format is a very simple data file format that is supported by almost all spreadsheet software such as Excel (although Excel uses the list separator of the current locale settings, which is a semicolon instead of a comma for many locales), Apple Numbers, OpenOffice.org Calc and Gnumeric as well as many online spreadsheet services such as EditGrid and Google Docs & Spreadsheets. Many database management systems support the reading and writing of CSV files.

Programming language tools

Any programming language that has input/output and string processing functionality is able to read and write CSV files. Here is a list of individual programming language support for the comma-separated values format.

Language Tool Notes
BASIC none required supported internally
C/C++ Free tools:

Libraries:

No comments in code. separated documentation.

Well documented, includes a CSV BNF grammar.

C# (and .Net)  
Cocoa/Objective-C  
Delphi/Object Pascal
Go Go CSV module In the standard library.
Haskell Not sure if RFC compliant.
Java Several free CSV tools exist:

There are also JDBC drivers available: [1] [2] [3] [4] and an ODBC driver: [5]

 
JavaScript
  • jQuery-CSV (MIT License). 100% RFC 4180 compliant.
  • csv-streamify (streaming csv parser for node.js)
  • node-csv (csv parser written in coffee script for node.js)
LaTeX datatool replaces former bundle csvtools from CTAN
Lisp fare-csv, csv-parser fare-csv is an ASDF package, csv-parser is a .lisp file
Mathematica Import/Export Built in support.
MATLAB csvread, dlmread. In the standard library.
OCaml OCaml CSV

Col: conversion between lists of records and CSV files with header (Camlp4 syntax extension)

 
Perl Text::CSV_XS, Text::CSV, or using a Perl DBI interface:

DBD::CSV, DBD::AnyData, csvdiff - compare two csv-files

from CPAN
Perl The first published formal Perl CSV specification. not from CPAN
PHP fgetcsv() function, fputcsv() function, or parseCSV by Jim Myhrberg In the standard library.
Pike Public.Standards.CSV From Pike Module Repository (gotpike).
PSPP None required. Available in the GET DATA command and from the graphical interface.
Python Python CSV module

Pyexcel

In the standard library.

A wrapper program providing a common api for a wide variety of spreadsheet formats.

R read.csv In the standard library.
Ruby Ruby CSV module, or FasterCSV by James Gray In the standard library.
Ruby on Rails framework Convertible to csv as an add-on (gem or plugin).
Scheme Chicken Scheme CSV module
Stata Import/Export Built in support.
Swift SwiftCSV by Naoto Kaneko
Tcl CSV-module of Tcl-library: package require csv
VBScript Parse Csv File
Visual Basic ParseCSV
Windows PowerShell Export-Csv Import-Csv ConvertTo-Csv ConvertFrom-Csv Supports Typed CSV format
xmlsh Supports conversions from csv to xml csv2xml and from xml to csv xml2csv A pure java scripting language

Data interpretation

Many applications that import CSV will try to interpret numbers and dates in order to allow sorting or other formatting features. For example, if a CSV field contains a large integer such as 1234567890123456 then it will appear in Gnumeric as 1.2346789012346E+15 and the resulting value is less accurate. Some applications also accept a single quote-character at the beginning of numbers as a way to indicate that it should be displayed as text (typically left aligned while numbers are right aligned). Also, although the csv specification does not specifically define any support for spreadsheet formulas, most spreadsheet programs will support cell formulas entered with csv by preceding the formula with an equal sign. For example, if your csv document contained "1,2,3,=max(A1:C1)" most spreadsheet programs would correctly display 3 in the cell D1.

Utilities

The csvprint utility will reformat CSV input based on a format string. This can be useful for reordering fields or generating source code or tables as illustrated in the following example: 

$ csvprint data.csv "\t{ %0, %1, %2, \"%3\" },\n"
        { 0xC0000008, 0x00060001, NT_STATUS_INVALID_HANDLE, "The handle is invalid." },

csvdiff is a Perl script to compare/diff two comma separated files with each other. The difference from standard diff is that the number of the record where the difference occurs is displayed, as well as the specific column which is different. The separator can be set to the other values besides comma. A third file which contains the columns' names separated by the separator can also be included. The column names will be shown if a difference is found. For example: 

$ perl csvdiff.pl -a act.csv -e exp.csv -s ";" -c col_names.csv -k "2" -t -i
Record with key "200100500" is different:
 Actual   line 006 > 200100500;200100500;6;;;;;;000;0;2005-12-20;55 <
 Expected line 008 > 200100500;200100500;6;;;;;;000;0;2005-12-19;55 <
  Difference in field no.: 11 - field name: Dat_Rueckgabe
   Actual   > 2005-12-20 <
   Expected > 2005-12-19 <

Ron's Editor, TablePro, and CSV Editor Pro are shareware applications for Windows that open any format of CSV file, in any text encoding for viewing, editing and cleaning.

CSVed is a freeware utility for Windows that loads a CSV file with its tabular structure and allows editing it in an efficient way.

CSVJSON is an online CSV to JSON converter. It parses CSV in a convenient way and auto-detects common separators. The semicolon separator is used in Excel with the French locale instead of the comma. The tab separator is used on clipboards to copy/paste tabular data to Excel for example.



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