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wasted a bunch of time yesterday trying to read CSV files in UE5 C++ because the documentation is wrong here's how to do it properly you're welcome loadbearingtomato.com/p/reading-cs...

loadbearingtomato.comReading CSV files in UE5 C++The documentation is wrong.

23/7/25, 9:32 pm23 reposts101 likes

Sam Seltzer-Johnston

@sbseltzer.net

23 July 2025

Looks like that misleading documentation was a (bad) community contribution

christina 死神

@chhopsky.tv

23 July 2025

my best guess is that it was correct when it was published and became incorrect later

Sam Seltzer-Johnston

@sbseltzer.net

23 July 2025

i have a less charitable impression of it 😅 i'm pretty sure unreal has had proper csv file parsing utilities for longer than that community tutorials section has existed

Sam Seltzer-Johnston

@sbseltzer.net

23 July 2025

ok it was driving me nuts so i checked UE 4.22 (oldest version i have installed at the moment) and sure enough it has FCsvParser lol