Comma-Delimited Files are:

Text Files that have separate fields enclosed in quotes and separated by commas. Each line in the file contains one record.

 

Example:

"First Name", "Initial", "Last Name", "Street", "City", "State","Zip"
"Frederick ","F.","Johnson","125 Weston","MyCity","CA", "12345"
 

 

Depending on how the file was created, it may or may not have the heading line.

As a program imports a comma delimited file, it reads each line, selects the data from between the quotes, and adds it to the new format according to instructions.