% This file is embedded in datatool-user.pdf version 3.4.5 2026-08-23
% Example 107 Loading Data With No Parsing
% Label: "ex:loadxynoparse"
% arara: pdflatex
% arara: pdfcrop
\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\pagestyle{empty}
\begin{filecontents}[noheader,overwrite]{xydata.csv}
X,Y
-3.5,-2.75
-3,3
-2.5,-1
-1,1.5
1,-4.2
2.6,1.8
3.2,-0.4
\end{filecontents}

\usepackage{datatool}
% This will assume that all data is just text:
\DTLread[
 name=xydata,
 format=csv,
 csv-content=no-parse ]{xydata.csv} 
\begin{document}
% since the columns are identified as strings, this just does a string sort:
\DTLsortdata{xydata}{Y}
\DTLdisplaydb{xydata} 
\end{document}
