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<title>The DBSTAT Virtual Table</title>
<tcl>hd_keywords csv {CSV virtual table}</tcl>
<table_of_contents>
<h1>The CSV Virtual Table</h1>



<p>
The CSV virtual table reads
[https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4180.txt|RFC 4180] formatted comma-separated
values, and returns that content as if it were rows and columns of an SQL
table.
</p>
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<p>
The CSV virtual table is useful to applications that need to bulk-load
large amounts of comma-separated value content.
The CSV virtual table is also useful as a template source file for
implementing other virtual tables.
</p>

<h2>Overview</h2>

<p>
The CVS virtual table is not built into the SQLite amalgamation.
It is available as a
[https://www.sqlite.org/src/artifact?ci=trunk&filename=ext/misc/csv.c|separate source file]
that can be compiled into a [loadable extension].
Typical usage of the CSV virtual table from the
[command-line shell] would be something like this:

<blockquote><pre>
.load ./csv
CREATE VIRTUAL TABLE temp.t1 USING csv(filename='thefile.csv');
SELECT * FROM t1;
</pre></blockquote>

<p>
The first line of the script above causes the [command-line shell] to
read and activate the run-time loadable extension for CSV.  For an
application, the equivalent C-language API is
[sqlite3_load_extension()].
Observe that the filename extension (ex: ".dll" or ".so" or ".dylib") is
................................................................................
The third line of the example shows the virtual table being used, to read
all content of the CSV file.  This is perhaps the simplest possible use
of the virtual table.  The CSV virtual table can be used anywhere an ordinary
virtual table can be used.  One can use the CSV virtual table inside subqueries,
or [common table expressions] or add WHERE, GROUP BY, HAVING, ORDER BY,
and LIMIT clauses as required.

<h2>Recognized Arguments</h2>

<p>
The example above showed a single <b>filename='th3file.csv'</b> argument
for the CSV virtual table.  But other arguments are also possible.

<ul>
<li><p><b>filename=</b><i>FILENAME</i>

<title>The CSV Virtual Table</title>
<tcl>hd_keywords csv {CSV virtual table}</tcl>
<fancy_format>


<h1>Overview</h1>

<p>
The CSV virtual table reads
[https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4180.txt|RFC 4180] formatted comma-separated
values, and returns that content as if it were rows and columns of an SQL
table.
</p>
................................................................................
<p>
The CSV virtual table is useful to applications that need to bulk-load
large amounts of comma-separated value content.
The CSV virtual table is also useful as a template source file for
implementing other virtual tables.
</p>



<p>
The CVS virtual table is not built into the SQLite amalgamation.
It is available as a
[https://www.sqlite.org/src/artifact?ci=trunk&filename=ext/misc/csv.c|separate source file]
that can be compiled into a [loadable extension].
Typical usage of the CSV virtual table from the
[command-line shell] would be something like this:

<codeblock>
.load ./csv
CREATE VIRTUAL TABLE temp.t1 USING csv(filename='thefile.csv');
SELECT * FROM t1;
</codeblock>

<p>
The first line of the script above causes the [command-line shell] to
read and activate the run-time loadable extension for CSV.  For an
application, the equivalent C-language API is
[sqlite3_load_extension()].
Observe that the filename extension (ex: ".dll" or ".so" or ".dylib") is
................................................................................
The third line of the example shows the virtual table being used, to read
all content of the CSV file.  This is perhaps the simplest possible use
of the virtual table.  The CSV virtual table can be used anywhere an ordinary
virtual table can be used.  One can use the CSV virtual table inside subqueries,
or [common table expressions] or add WHERE, GROUP BY, HAVING, ORDER BY,
and LIMIT clauses as required.

<h1>Recognized Arguments</h1>

<p>
The example above showed a single <b>filename='th3file.csv'</b> argument
for the CSV virtual table.  But other arguments are also possible.

<ul>
<li><p><b>filename=</b><i>FILENAME</i>