Infrastructure

CSV

CSV stands for comma-separated values. It is the plainest possible way to save a table: one line per row, a comma between each column, and no colors, formulas, or formatting. Almost every business tool can produce one and read one, which is why it became the common language between programs that were never designed to talk.

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