
23Introduction
1.16.16 csv text files
A CSV le is a text le with elds separated by commas. CSV stands for the format of comma
separated values. In Windows, a default program to open the CSV les is Excel. Double click on
the salinity.csv le to obtain Figure 1.16. To see more numbers you would have to scroll to the right.
A CSV le is just a text le, and therefore it also opens with the notepad and Vim. Right click on
the le name, select open with, and then select Vim. As you can see, commas separate the numbers
and the lines are “word wrapped” (Figure 1.17). If using the notepad, you can choose the option
Format|Word wrap to show all t ...