Can Excel interpret the URLs in my CSV as hyperlinks?

You can actually do this and have Excel show a clickable link. Use this format in the CSV file:

=HYPERLINK("URL")

So the CSV would look like:

1,23.4,=HYPERLINK("http://www.google.com")

However, I'm trying to get some links with commas in them to work properly and it doesn't look like there's a way to escape them and still have Excel make the link clickable.

Does anyone know how?

With embedding the hyperlink function you need to watch the quotes. Below is an example of a CSV file created that lists an error and a link to view the documentation on the method that failed. (Bit esoteric but that's what I am working on)

"Details","Failing Method (click to view)"
"Method failed","=HYPERLINK(""http://some_url_with_documentation"",""Method_name"")"

I read all of these answers and some others but it still took a while to work it out in Excel 2014.

The result in the csv should look like this

"=HYPERLINK(""http://www.Google.com"",""Google"")"

Note: If you are trying to set this from MSSQL server then

'"=HYPERLINK(""http://www.' + baseurl + '.com"",""' + baseurl + '"")"' AS url