Editing Delimiter-separated values (section)

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Formats that use '''delimiter-separated values''' (also '''DSV''')<ref name="artofunix">DSV stands for ''Delimiter Separated Values'' {{cite book | last = Raymond | first = Eric | title = The Art of Unix Programming | publisher = Addison-Wesley | location = Boston | year = 2004 | isbn = 0-13-142901-9 | url = http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/taoup/html/ch05s02.html}}</ref>{{rp|113}} store two-dimensional arrays of data by separating the values in each row with specific [[delimiter]] [[character (computing)|characters]]. Most [[database]] and [[spreadsheet]] programs are able to read or save data in a delimited format. Due to their wide support, DSV files can be used in [[data exchange]] among many applications.

A '''delimited text file''' is a [[text file]] used to store data, in which each line represents a single book, company, or other thing, and each line has fields separated by the delimiter.<ref>
Stephen R. Westman.
[https://books.google.com/books?id=20bG82MuVJIC "Creating Database-backed Library Web Pages: Using Open Source Tools"].
2006.
Section "Structured Text Files".
p. 15.
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Compared to  the kind of [[flat file]] that uses spaces to force every field to the same width, a '''delimited file''' has the advantage of allowing field values of any length.<ref>
Richard Petersen.
[https://books.google.com/books?id=4hStzByjNvEC "Introductory Command Line Unix for Users"].
2006.
p. 356.
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