What is a good light-weight CSV viewer? [closed]

Answer 1

Beacuse I was unhappy with how Excel displays CSV files, I produced a small executable designed to display CSV files. I recently made it available at http://csvquickviewer.com/ It’s only available for Windows because its writing in .NET

It does not need configuration but allows filtering, searching etc.

Answer 2

Finally find one can instantly open large files, and automatically detect the delimiter: The V File Viewer from http://www.fileviewer.com/ 20 days free trial. $20 to buy.

Another one, which is extremely fast and also automatically detect the delimiter is Delimit from http://delimitware.com 15 days free trail. $49 / year. Kind of expensive.

Answer 3

These threads both point to CSVed:

• Light text editor for CSV file?
• Looking for a very fast to load lightweight csv viewer

I tried it and had some issues with larger files (4000000 rows) with lots of columns (313), so YMMV.

I usually just use the BSD column utility. It's part of the util-linux package on windows:

Answer 4

I believe there are Free excel viewers out there on Microsoft's site. And I think the native wordpad/write can also open up CSV files.