Reading CSV data
If you’ve not worked with CSV files before, CSV stands for comma-separated values. A CSV file, therefore, is a file consisting of individual rows of data, with each field within a row broken up by a comma.
Understanding CSV data
An example of a CSV file for a list of football players is shown here:
First,Last,Pos,Num,Club,Nation,RightFoot?,Height,RookieYear Fidel,Yost,Midfielder,74,Houston Niners,Serbia,True,163,2022 Annetta,Preslo,Midfielder,30,Code Monekys,Guam,True,175,2019 Lance,Casper,Sweeper,49,Purple Cobras,Maldives,True,180,2019 Tom,Wolf,Left Back,48,Houston Niners,Egypt,False,177,2017 Gillian,Pouros,Sweeper,86,Code Monkeys,Canada,False,185,2020
Here, the first row acts as a header and identifies what each value represents in the subsequent row. We then have five additional rows representing individual players.
Most spreadsheet software and text editors can work with CSV files. Additionally, the major relational databases support exporting...