Your team exports a customer table from the CRM so it can be ingested by another application. The resulting plain-text file starts with the header line FIRST_NAME,LAST_NAME,EMAIL, and each subsequent line contains comma-separated values such as James,Holden,[email protected]. Which file format was generated?
Comma Separated Values (CSV) is a delimited-text format that uses commas to separate individual fields and a newline to terminate each record. This simple structure maps directly to rows and columns, so spreadsheets and databases can import or export it easily.
Incorrect options: TSV uses tab characters as delimiters, while JSON and XML are hierarchical markup formats rather than simple delimiter-based text.
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