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<section name="Commons CSV">
  <p>Commons CSV was started to unify a common and simple interface for reading and writing CSV files under an ASL license. It has been bootstrapped by a code donation from Netcetera in Switzerland. There are three pre-existing BSD compatible CSV parsers which this component will hopefully make redundant (authors willing): </p>
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    <li><a href="http://kasparov.skife.org/csv/">Skife CSV</a></li>
    <li><a href="http://opencsv.sourceforge.net/">Open CSV</a></li>
    <li><a href="http://www.osjava.org/genjava/multiproject/gj-csv/">Genjava CSV</a></li>
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  <p>In addition to the code from Netcetera (org.apache.commons.csv), Martin van den Bemt has added an additional writer API (org.apache.commons.csv.writer). </p>
  <p>Other CSV implementations: </p>
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    <li><a href="http://supercsv.sourceforge.net/">Super CSV</a></li>
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<section name="Getting the code?">
  <p>There are currently no official downloads, and will not be until CSV moves out of the Sandbox, but a nightly build is available from <a href="http://people.apache.org/builds/commons/nightly/commons-csv/">http://people.apache.org/builds/commons/nightly/commons-csv/</a>. </p>
  <p>The latest code may be checked out from the following url - <a href="http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/commons/sandbox/csv/trunk/">http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/commons/sandbox/csv/trunk/</a>. </p>
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<section name="Bugs?">
  <p>Please report any bugs or issues in the Commons Sandbox Jira project at <a href="http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SANDBOX">http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SANDBOX</a>. Please ask any questions or suggest any ideas for improvement on the commons-dev and commons-user <a href="mail-lists.html">mailing lists</a>. </p>
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