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Spark SQL provides spark.read().csv("file_name")
to read a file or directory of files in CSV format into Spark DataFrame, and dataframe.write().csv("path")
to write to a CSV file. Function option()
can be used to customize the behavior of reading or writing, such as controlling behavior of the header, delimiter character, character set, and so on.