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# CSV files **(FREE)**
> [Introduced](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/14174) in GitLab 14.1.
A comma-separated values (CSV) file is a delimited text file that uses a comma to separate values.
Each line of the file is a data record. Each record consists of one or more fields, separated by
commas. The use of the comma as a field separator is the source of the name for this file format.
A CSV file typically stores tabular data (numbers and text) in plain text, in which case each line
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has the same number of fields.
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The CSV file format is not fully standardized. Other characters can be used as column delimiters.
Fields may or may not be surrounded to escape special characters.
When added to a repository, files with a `.csv` extension are rendered as a table when viewed in
GitLab.
