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stage: Create
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group: Source Code
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info: To determine the technical writer assigned to the Stage/Group associated with this page, see https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/engineering/ux/technical-writing/#assignments
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type: reference
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# CSV files **(FREE)**
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> [Introduced](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/14174) in GitLab 14.1.
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A comma-separated values (CSV) file is a delimited text file that uses a comma to separate values.
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Each line of the file is a data record. Each record consists of one or more fields, separated by
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commas. The use of the comma as a field separator is the source of the name for this file format.
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A CSV file typically stores tabular data (numbers and text) in plain text, in which case each line
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will have 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.
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Fields may or may not be surrounded to escape special characters.
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When added to a repository, files with a `.csv` extension are rendered as a table when viewed in
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GitLab.
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