How do you handle quotes in CSV?

Can CSV files have quotes?

Quotation marks appear in CSV files as text qualifiers. This means, they function to wrap together text that should be kept as one value, versus what are distinct values that should be separated out.

How do you escape a quote CSV?

There are 2 accepted ways of escaping double-quotes in a CSV file. One is using a 2 consecutive double-quotes to denote 1 literal double-quote in the data. The alternative is using a backslash and a single double-quote.

What can you use to handle CSV files with quoted identifiers?

You can use alternative "delimiters" like ";" or "|" but simplest might just be quoting which is supported by most (decent) CSV libraries and most decent spreadsheets.

How do you escape commas and quotes in CSV?

The data value with a comma character that is part of the data is enclosed in double quotes. The double quotes that are part of the data are escaped with a double quote even though the field value is enclosed in double quotes. Note: In CSV mode, all characters are significant.