What is a .CSV file?
CSV is a plain-text table format storing rows of comma-separated values. Opened in Excel, Google Sheets and any text editor.
- Did you know
- CSV has been used since the earliest days of computing but was only formally documented in 2005, as RFC 4180.
- Despite the name, CSV files often use semicolons or tabs instead of commas, a habit that grew up in regions where the comma is the decimal separator.
- Because there is no single authority over the format, quoting and line-ending conventions vary between tools, which is why a CSV exported by one program can confuse another.
- A .CSV file is plain text, so you can open and edit it in any text editor.
- On the web a .CSV file is served with the MIME type
text/csv.
- What Analyser shows you
- Preview CSV and TSV tables with per-column stats, and view or rasterise SVG vector graphics.
- Open a .CSV file
- Drag a .CSV file onto the Analyser home page (or tap to pick one). It opens entirely in your browser - nothing is uploaded, there is no account, and it works offline once installed.
- Related formats
- .TSV · .SVG. See all supported file types.