What is CSV file (overview)

Published 04 February 2020

Description

This video is a guide to understanding what is CSV. It is a CSV file tutorial.

You will learn that CSV file stores tabular data, however, CSV is a text file.

Then, you will see that CSV stands for comma-separated values. You will explore how CSV files are created in a spreadsheet program (Excel and Google Spreadsheets) and how CSV looks in a text editor.

Finally, we talk about the usage of the CSV file and learn what is a CSV used for.

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