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What is CSV or Comma Separated File

What is CSV or Comma Separated File?
CSV stands for Comma Separated File. CSV is standard file format for data in a sequence as a text file. Creating of CSV file is too much easy. First of all you have to plan a sequence of data. For Example I planned to keep students data in CSV file.

I am going to create CSV file and will put this data.

StudentName,FatherName,Class,Subject,Institute
John Abraham,Pole Abraham,2nd Year,Computer Sciences,XYZ University
Peter Alan,Sub Moe,3rd Year,Social Studies,XYZ Institute

You can download an sample file here.

Open any text based editor like Notepad, PSPad or TextPad etc. type contents give above and save file with extension .csv
Your CSV file is ready. If Microsoft Excel is installed in your PC then you can open this CSV file in Microsoft Excel. Many other softwares manage CSV files.


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