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Are commas allowed in CSV?

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  1. What characters are not allowed in CSV?
  2. How does CSV handle commas in data?
CSV is a delimited text file that uses a comma to separate values (many implementations of CSV import/export tools allow other separators to be used; for example, the use of a "Sep=^" row as the first row in the *. csv file will cause Excel to open the file expecting caret "^" to be the separator instead of comma ",").


What characters are not allowed in CSV?

How to deal with special characters in CSVPunctuation marks, such as question marks and exclamation points.Math symbols, such as the "=" symbol, brackets, +/- and so on.Emojis.Trademark, copyright and other legal symbols.Foreign language characters and logograms, such as Chinese symbols and tilde, etc.How to deal with special characters in CSV

How does CSV handle commas in data?

There's actually a spec for CSV format, RFC 4180 and how to handle commas: Fields containing line breaks (CRLF), double quotes, and commas should be enclosed in double-quotes.

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