In addition to aforementioned import/export data interop with MS Excel, there are tons of legacy systems (mainframes, etc) that import/export csv but not XML or

In addition to aforementioned import/export data interop with MS Excel, there are tons of legacy systems (mainframes, etc) that import/export csv but not XML or JSON. The csv format is everywhere and will continue to be with us for decades. People will always look for a quality library (in whatever new programming language) that handles all tricky edge cases. A few months ago, I was trying to get some bulk data into ebay's proprietary TurboLister[1] program. Guess what, it can import csv but not JSON. SQLite[2] can import csv but not JSON. Google's terabyte ngram dataset[3] is csv (tsv) instead of JSON. I'm glad it's not JSON because it would have required extra disk space. ... plus tons of other real-world csv examples out in the wild. Unfortunately, the csv format is very easy for programs to write but it's very difficult for programs to properly read because of the tricky parsing. [1] http://pages.ebay.com/sellerinformation/sellingresources/turbolister.html http://pages.ebay.com/sellerinformation/sellingresources/tur... [2] http://www.sqlite.org/cvstrac/wiki?p=ImportingFiles http://www.sqlite.org/cvstrac/wiki?p=ImportingFiles [3] http://storage.googleapis.com/books/ngrams/books/datasetsv2.html http://storage.googleapis.com/books/ngrams/books/datasetsv2....