Auto-detect CSV Separator

CSV files are very popular for storing tabular data because they are simple textual files with a very few rules. This makes them very interoperable because CSV readers and writers are relatively easy to implement. Interoperability is, probably, the first reason why would someone choose to save the data in CSV format. In order to build a generic CSV reader that will read CSV file regardless of the separator, the reader must first figure out which character is used as a separator. This article gives one possible solution to this problem.

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