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Add reference to RFC 4180
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* Apache Commons CSV Format Support.
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* <p>CSV (or its dialects) are widely used as interfaces to legacy systems or
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* manual data-imports. CSV stands for "Comma Separated Values" (or sometimes
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* "Character Separated Values") but this simple abbreviation leads to more
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* confusion than definitions.</p>
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* <p>CSV are widely used as interfaces to legacy systems or manual data-imports.
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* CSV stands for "Comma Separated Values" (or sometimes "Character Separated
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* Values"). The CSV data format is defined in
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* <a href="http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4180" target="_blank">RFC 4180</a>
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* but many dialects exist.</p>
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* <p>Common to all file dialects is its basic structure: The CSV data-format
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* is record oriented, whereas each record starts on a new textual line. A

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