RFC4180 – Common Format and MIME Type for CSV Files (2005)
submitter here.<p>I&#x27;ve submitted the link to the formal specification of the comma-separated value (CSV) file format as I&#x27;ve noticed that someone else had posted a link to a CSV parser.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=12770373" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=12770373</a><p>A CSV parser is trivial to implement, and the complexity of the endeavour is so low that it doesn&#x27;t even justify as a tutorial on how to implement a proper parser.