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1919 * Apache Commons CSV Format Support.
2020 *
21- * <p>CSV (or its dialects) are widely used as interfaces to legacy systems or
22- * manual data-imports. CSV stands for "Comma Separated Values" (or sometimes
23- * "Character Separated Values") but this simple abbreviation leads to more
24- * confusion than definitions.</p>
21+ * <p>CSV are widely used as interfaces to legacy systems or manual data-imports.
22+ * CSV stands for "Comma Separated Values" (or sometimes "Character Separated
23+ * Values"). The CSV data format is defined in
24+ * <a href="http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4180" target="_blank">RFC 4180</a>
25+ * but many dialects exist.</p>
2526 *
2627 * <p>Common to all file dialects is its basic structure: The CSV data-format
2728 * is record oriented, whereas each record starts on a new textual line. A
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