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Add reference to RFC 4180 

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Benedikt Ritter 2013-09-13 08:23:26 +00:00
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/**
* Apache Commons CSV Format Support.
*
* <p>CSV (or its dialects) are widely used as interfaces to legacy systems or
* manual data-imports. CSV stands for "Comma Separated Values" (or sometimes
* "Character Separated Values") but this simple abbreviation leads to more
* confusion than definitions.</p>
* <p>CSV are widely used as interfaces to legacy systems or manual data-imports.
* CSV stands for "Comma Separated Values" (or sometimes "Character Separated
* Values"). The CSV data format is defined in
* <a href="http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4180" target="_blank">RFC 4180</a>
* but many dialects exist.</p>
*
* <p>Common to all file dialects is its basic structure: The CSV data-format
* is record oriented, whereas each record starts on a new textual line. A