CSV file format ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ .CSV (Comma Seperated Value) format is mostly self-explanatory ASCII text format. If you export a file from a database in CSV format and look at it you will find that it is simply a list of entries seperated by commas: ::= { } ::= { "," } ::= ( { } | ) That's all I think... and there is some problem with this format: different database systems have different definitions of the term :) Also Paradox version approx.4 has the bug. When converting to .CSV, it always writes values surrounded by "s -- but if in the source database file we have a field containing "s, them will not be doubled in CSV. E.g.: abc"dfg will be translated to "abc"dfg" instead of "abc""dfg".