Description
Double-click an exported CSV and Excel takes fifteen seconds to start, then mangles the encoding, turns order numbers into scientific notation and eats the leading zeros — when all you wanted was to look at the data. CSVFileView does exactly that job: a 136 KB single file that opens instantly and lays the columns out as they are, showing every field verbatim instead of helpfully reformatting it.
It comes from NirSoft, the Israeli developer behind a hundred-odd small Windows utilities. No installation, no registry writes, just a standard list view you can sort by clicking a header, resize, filter, and close when done.
Verbatim display: long numbers stay long instead of becoming 1.02E+11, leading zeros and date strings keep the form they have in the file — which matters when reconciling statements or exports.
Any delimiter, any encoding: comma, tab, semicolon and pipe are all parsed, with ANSI, UTF-8 and UTF-16 selectable, so a garbled file usually just needs the right encoding.
Sorting and filtering: click a column header to sort by it and filter rows by condition, picking a handful of records out of tens of thousands without writing a formula.
Conversion and export: save a CSV as tab-delimited, XML, HTML or JSON, and read those back in — far quicker than opening a spreadsheet for a one-off conversion.
Command line options: source file, output format and destination can all be passed as arguments, which drops it into batch scripts for bulk conversion.
Localized: dozens of official language packs including Simplified Chinese — drop the ini file beside the executable and the interface switches.
Single portable file: one exe plus a help file, carried on a USB stick, double-clicked on any Windows machine and deleted afterwards without a trace.
It comes from NirSoft, the Israeli developer behind a hundred-odd small Windows utilities. No installation, no registry writes, just a standard list view you can sort by clicking a header, resize, filter, and close when done.
Features
Verbatim display: long numbers stay long instead of becoming 1.02E+11, leading zeros and date strings keep the form they have in the file — which matters when reconciling statements or exports.
Any delimiter, any encoding: comma, tab, semicolon and pipe are all parsed, with ANSI, UTF-8 and UTF-16 selectable, so a garbled file usually just needs the right encoding.
Sorting and filtering: click a column header to sort by it and filter rows by condition, picking a handful of records out of tens of thousands without writing a formula.
Conversion and export: save a CSV as tab-delimited, XML, HTML or JSON, and read those back in — far quicker than opening a spreadsheet for a one-off conversion.
Command line options: source file, output format and destination can all be passed as arguments, which drops it into batch scripts for bulk conversion.
Localized: dozens of official language packs including Simplified Chinese — drop the ini file beside the executable and the interface switches.
Single portable file: one exe plus a help file, carried on a USB stick, double-clicked on any Windows machine and deleted afterwards without a trace.
