To re-emphasize the above, line breaks within a field are allowed within a CSV as long as they are wrapped in quotation marks, this is what trips most people up who are simply reading line by line like it’s a regular text file.However fields that contain a line-break, comma, or quotation marks must be contained in quotes. Any CSV parser should be able to both read columns based on a “header” value, and by index. If there is no header row, then you rely on the order of the columns being the same. If there is a header row, then the order of the columns is not important since you can detect what is actually in each column. A CSV may or may not have a header row. Hopefully they should go ahead and explain why rolling your own is sometimes more pain than it’s worth. There are a couple of CSV gotchas that have to be brought up before we dive deeper. With support for multiple frameworks, begin with a 30-day trial key or contact our 24-hour support team to discuss licensing starting from $399. You can read, edit, and create Excel spreadsheets or work with other Excel formats such as XLS/XLSX/CSV/TSV. Using C# or VB.NET, it’s easy to use IronXL’s Excel API without the need for Interop.
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