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CSV is short for "Comma Separated Value" and is a ascii
(i.e. plain text) file format. CSV is most commonly used by spreadsheet
application such as Microsoft excel, the values are separated by
commas, to indicate the separating points for coloums. CSV is most
commonly used on the web as datafeeds to transfer data between databases.
Many price comparison sites such as Kelkoo use csv datafeeds from
companies such as Dixons to display price comparison for electronic
items such as digital cameras . CSV is therefore mainly a file exchange
format, along with others such as XML.
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