# Import of csv-data don't read columns

I couldn't catch the point: when I try to read an easy csv-dataset with ";" as delimiter, I get only "strings" instead of a set of columns. Here are two lines of the csv-File:

k_id;started;created;code;kogtest_1_txt; 1;12.11.2018 - 09:03;12.11.2018 - 09:05;123456789;abc;

This Import-Statement data = Import["csvData.csv", Delimiter -> ";"] leads to {{"k_id;started;created;code;kogtest_1_txt;"}, {"1;12.11.2018 -
09:03;12.11.2018 - 09:05;123456789;abc;"}}

a List with two rows and one column with "strings" in it.

Any idea?

• Aside: That is not a CSV file.
– Alan
Feb 25 at 20:47
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• Hi Alan. Why isn't this file CSV? Because of the delimiter? Your link mentioned "in addition, the term "CSV" also denotes several closely related delimiter-separated formats that use other field delimiters". For me, a txt file with a delimiter between columns, is a CSV-File. Feb 27 at 3:36

Import["C:\\file.csv", "Table", "FieldSeparators" -> ";"]