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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.

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

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

23/7/25, 11:48 pm0 reposts0 likes

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

christina 死神

@chhopsky.tv

24 July 2025

i mean yes FCsvParser also exists but the code that the tutorial used was explicitly changed in 4.5 for this, the bug report was TTP#343109 FString::ParseIntoArray() did, for a period of time between 4.5 and ???, ignore commas inside of quotes, and now doesn't

christina 死神

@chhopsky.tv

24 July 2025

forums.unrealengine.com/t/how-do-i-u...

forums.unrealengine.comHow do i use commas in .csv driven data string fields?I’m having the same problem with 4.3.1 The answer can be found in String.cpp:546 In FString::ParseIntoArray(), FCString::Strstr(Start,pchDelim) indiscriminately uses the delimiter “,” to gobble th...

Sam Seltzer-Johnston

@sbseltzer.net

24 July 2025

ah i didn't see this. i thought you were just talking about the csv reading part of it. the tutorial you linked in the blog post is only a couple years old, which is why i feel a lot less forgiving of it.