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Status: Verified (2)

RFC 4180, "Common Format and MIME Type for Comma-Separated Values (CSV) Files", October 2005

Note: This RFC has been updated by RFC 7111

Source of RFC: IETF - NON WORKING GROUP
Area Assignment: app

Errata ID: 5593
Status: Verified
Type: Editorial
Publication Format(s) : TEXT
Reported By: Greg Skinner
Date Reported: 2019-01-06
Verifier Name: Orie Steele
Date Verified: 2024-03-29

Section 2 says: 

There maybe an optional header line appearing as the first line
of the file with the same format as normal record lines.

It should say:

There may be an optional header line appearing as the first line
of the file with the same format as normal record lines.

Notes:

fixed spelling error

Errata ID: 5714
Status: Verified
Type: Editorial
Publication Format(s) : TEXT
Reported By: Damon Koach
Date Reported: 2019-05-01
Verifier Name: Barry Leiba
Date Verified: 2019-05-01

Section 5, 6 says: 

Section 5: 
  "aaa","bbb","ccc" CRLF
Section 6: 
  "aaa","b CRLF
  bb","ccc" CRLF
  zzz,yyy,xxx

It should say:

Section 5:
  "aaa","bbb","ccc"CRLF
Section 6:
  "aaa","b CRLF
  bb","ccc"CRLF
  zzz,yyy,xxx

Notes:

As implied in the ABNF grammar, escaped (quoted) fields may not be followed by a space.
The corrected text removes those spaces from the examples, making them syntactically correct.

Status: Reported (3)

RFC 4180, "Common Format and MIME Type for Comma-Separated Values (CSV) Files", October 2005

Note: This RFC has been updated by RFC 7111

Source of RFC: IETF - NON WORKING GROUP
Area Assignment: app

Errata ID: 5345
Status: Reported
Type: Technical
Publication Format(s) : TEXT
Reported By: Abed BenBrahim
Date Reported: 2018-04-30

Section 2 says: 

6.  Fields containing line breaks (CRLF), double quotes, and commas 
should be enclosed in double-quotes.

It should say:

6.  Fields containing line breaks (CRLF), double quotes, and commas 
must be enclosed in double-quotes.

Notes:

CSV is clearly unparsable if commas are not enclosed in double quotes.

Errata ID: 6230
Status: Reported
Type: Technical
Publication Format(s) : TEXT
Reported By: Marco Diniz Sousa
Date Reported: 2020-07-13

Section 2 says: 

The last record in the file may or may not have an ending line break.

file = [header CRLF] record *(CRLF record) [CRLF]

It should say:

The last record in the file must have an ending line break.

file = [header CRLF] record *(CRLF record) CRLF

Notes:

The grammar seems to be ambiguous in the case below:
- Records have just one field;
- The last record may have an empty value.

File:
---
header1CRLF
aCRLF
bCRLF
EOF
---

In the file above, we do not know if we have four records (header1, a, b and an empty value) with the last record not ending with a line break; or if we have three records (header1, a and b) with the last record ending with a line break.

The grammar allows empty fields:
non-escaped = *TEXTDATA

According to RFC 2234:
"Default values are 0 and infinity so that *<element> allows any number, including zero;"

Errata ID: 7572
Status: Reported
Type: Technical
Publication Format(s) : TEXT
Reported By: Robert Hairgrove
Date Reported: 2023-07-24

Section 7.2 Informative Ref says: 

[4]  Repici, J., "HOW-TO: The Comma Separated Value (CSV) File
        Format", 2004,
        <http://www.creativyst.com/Doc/Articles/CSV/CSV01.htm>.

It should say:

[4]  Repici, J., "HOW-TO: The Comma Separated Value (CSV) File
        Format", 2004-2010,
        <https://www.creativyst.com/Doc/Articles/CSV/CSV01.shtml>.

Notes:

Suggested corrected text updates the link which uses the TLS-conforming URL for the creativyst.com site and the date range of publication. It seems that some browsers might not cleanly redirect to the HTTPS address.

Status: Rejected (1)

RFC 4180, "Common Format and MIME Type for Comma-Separated Values (CSV) Files", October 2005

Note: This RFC has been updated by RFC 7111

Source of RFC: IETF - NON WORKING GROUP
Area Assignment: app

Errata ID: 5464
Status: Rejected
Type: Technical
Publication Format(s) : TEXT
Reported By: Alperen Belgic
Date Reported: 2018-08-15
Rejected by: Benjamin Kaduk
Date Rejected: 2018-08-16

Section 2 says: 

5.  Each field may or may not be enclosed in double quotes (however
       some programs, such as Microsoft Excel, do not use double quotes
       at all).

It should say:

5.  Each field may or may not be enclosed in double quotes.

Notes:

For csv files, Microsoft Excel 2010 saves the value of a field enclosed in double quotes if a cell contains a comma in its value.
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