Convert a semicolon CSV to a comma CSV
A CSV saved with decimal-comma settings usually has semicolons between its columns, because the comma is already in use inside the numbers. Software that expects commas then sees one wide column. Replacing every semicolon with a comma in a text editor breaks the file, since the amounts hold commas too. Choose the file below: the page works in your browser, shows the first 20 cleaned rows and lists every line it left out, with the reason.
Clean your CSV export
The cleaner detects the delimiter (comma, semicolon or tab), looks for a header row with a date column and an amount column, and writes eight fixed columns, comma-delimited: date, description, amount, currency, fee, net, reference and source. It recognises common header names in English, Spanish, German and French, such as Date, Fecha, Buchungstag, Amount, Importe, Betrag and Montant.
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The cleaning logic is checked by an automated test script that runs the engine file of this site over six synthetic sample files and a set of checks of the parsing rules; it ran in a sandbox before this site was published and finished with no failed check. The script does not open this page in a browser, does not test the licence key step, and nothing was tested against a real export from any provider. Use the free preview to check your own file.
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Preview of the cleaned rows
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- What the key unlocks: the download of every cleaned row of the file you chose, as one CSV named after your file with -cleaned.csv at the end, instead of the first 20 rows on screen. The report and the way files are read stay the same.
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How the delimiter is changed
- The delimiter is worked out from the file. The cleaner splits the start of the file by semicolon, by tab and by comma and keeps the one that gives the most rows of equal width. The comma is chosen only when it scores strictly higher than the other two. The report names the delimiter that was used.
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sep=first line is respected. When a file starts with that spreadsheet hint, the delimiter it names is used. - Quoted fields stay whole. A quoted description that holds a semicolon, a comma or a line break remains one field. In the output, a field that holds a comma or a quote is quoted, and quotes inside it are doubled.
- Decimal commas become decimal points, so the commas of the output separate columns and nothing else. The report states which decimal separator the file was read with.
- Only three delimiters are detected: comma, semicolon and tab. A file delimited by a vertical bar or another character is not read.
The output is always the same eight columns (date, description, amount, currency, fee, net, reference and source), comma-delimited. Columns of your file that are not among them are not carried over, so this is a cleaner for files of transactions and not a general CSV editor.
By hand: import the file into a spreadsheet with the separator set to semicolon and the language set to one that uses a decimal comma, then save it as CSV with a decimal-point language. Open the saved file in a text editor and read one line before you use it.
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