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balls187
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When I open a CSV file in Excel 2013, it correctly delimits the file.
You may have non-standard CSV files (or at least delimited files that are not properly escaped)
pdw
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There are no standard CSV files. There's even no "Excel standard": Excel uses different delimiters in different locales. It's a huge pain.
gcanyon
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It's important to point out that there is no standard for CSV files, only conventions.
ajanuary
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There is RFC4180, but that came way after people were using it in lots or ways incompatible with the spec, so it isn't a huge help when paraing arbitrary files. I'd recommend following it if you're generating files though.
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You may have non-standard CSV files (or at least delimited files that are not properly escaped)