CSV with quoted fields, embedded commas and line breaks

A short CSV file in which fields contain commas, doubled quotation marks, line breaks, leading spaces and empty values.

sample-csv-quoted-fields.csv

324 B324 bytes

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Type: text/csv
SHA-256: 10abd64257b1afd45bbb9c836ca9adac683fa818b99fe9d08c0cad7b276d97b5
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Why test with this file

Finds importers that split on every comma or every newline instead of following the quoting rules of RFC 4180.

Data rows	6
Columns	4
Edge cases	Embedded comma, escaped quotes, multi-line field, empty field, leading and trailing spaces
Line endings	CRLF
Encoding	UTF-8 without BOM

What to check

After your application has processed sample-csv-quoted-fields.csv, confirm that:

Six records are imported, not seven: the line break in row 3 is inside a quoted field.
The name in row 1 keeps its comma and row 2 keeps its quotation marks.
Rows 4 and 6 show whether your importer distinguishes a missing value from an empty string.

How the file begins

The opening lines of sample-csv-quoted-fields.csv, exactly as they appear in the file.

id,name,comment,amount
1,"Abbott, Ava","Contains a comma, inside quotes",10.50
2,Noah Brennan,"She said ""hello"" and left",20.00
3,Mia Castillo,"First line
Second line of the same field",30.25
4,Liam Dalton,,40.00
5,"  Zoe Eklund  ","Leading and trailing spaces are part of the value",50.75
6,Ethan Farrow,"",60.00

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Technical details

File name	sample-csv-quoted-fields.csv
Format	CSV (Comma-separated values)
Extension	.csv
MIME type	text/csv
Size	324 bytes (324 B)
Kind	Text
SHA-256	10abd64257b1afd45bbb9c836ca9adac683fa818b99fe9d08c0cad7b276d97b5
Created	2026-10-10
Validation	Exact size, signature bytes and structure checked when the generator was built; your copy is checked against the SHA-256 after it is created
Preview	Available on this page
Source	Generated in your browser by this site's generator; not copied from elsewhere
Licence	Free to use, modify and redistribute (terms)
Category	Spreadsheets

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sha256sum sample-csv-quoted-fields.csv     # Linux
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About CSV

Tabular data as plain text, one record per line. The universal import and export format.

CSV format reference

Where it fits

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