Often my customers send me Excel and CSV file to be importend into a database (MySql, Oracle, Microsoft Sql Server) or to be processed in many way to be stored in a convenient and more standard format.
With this library of Ostermuller it's easy to parse a CSV file and transform in a array of strings, ready to be processed by java.
I found it extremely useful and saved me many hour of work.
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