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

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Are there any good lightweight CSV viewers out there? I would like something that easily refreshes a file after it has been modified. A quick google search didn't turn up any clear winners.

I'd prefer not to have to open Excel each time since it locks the file. This prevents any other programs from updating the file.

Answer 1

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.

Answer 2

If you just want to look at the file, why not use a text editor? The better ones will notice a refresh and prompt you if you want to reload the file. However, they won't separate the values out into different columns for you; they will only display the contents. Both UltraEdit and TextPad have been reliable for me in the past.

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

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.