CSV is actually … Semicolon Separated Values … (Excel export on AZERTY)

Question

I\'m a bit confused here.

When I use Excel 2003 to export a sheet to CSV, it actually uses semicolons ...

Col1;Col2;Col3
shfdh;dfhdsfhd;fdhsdfh
dgsgs         


        

Answer 1

One way would be to just use a decent CSV library; one that lets you specify the delimiter:

using (var csvReader = new CsvReader("yourinputfile.csv"))
{
    csvReader.ValueSeparator = ';';
    csvReader.ReadHeaderRecord();

    while (csvReader.HasMoreRecords)
    {
        var record = csvReader.ReadDataRecord():
        var col1 = record["Col1"];
        var col2 = record["Col2"];
    }
}