From 67155b3d52aa1d42070e4aa50552ec51cfc92a6c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Benedikt Ritter Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2013 08:23:26 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Add reference to RFC 4180 git-svn-id: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/commons/proper/csv/trunk@1522810 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68 --- src/main/java/org/apache/commons/csv/package-info.java | 9 +++++---- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/csv/package-info.java b/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/csv/package-info.java index f0202e23..29e7fef6 100644 --- a/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/csv/package-info.java +++ b/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/csv/package-info.java @@ -18,10 +18,11 @@ /** * Apache Commons CSV Format Support. * - *

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.

+ *

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 + * RFC 4180 + * but many dialects exist.

* *

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