Tab-Separated Values (TSV) File
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A Tab-Separated Values (TSV) File is a formatted file that ...
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- See: Escape Character, MIME, Table_(Information), Spreadsheet, Tab Stop, Delimiter-Separated Values.
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2015
- (Wikipedia, 2015) ⇒ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/tab-separated_values Retrieved:2015-10-11.
- A tab-separated values file is a simple text format for storing data in a tabular structure (e.g. database or spreadsheet data). Each record in the table is one line of the text file. Each field value of a record is separated from the next by a tab stop character – it is a form of the more general delimiter-separated values format.
TSV is a simple file format that is widely supported, so it is often used to move tabular data between different computer programs that support the format. For example, a TSV file might be used to transfer information from a database program to a spreadsheet.
TSV is an alternative to the common comma-separated values (CSV) format, which often causes difficulties because of the need to escape commas – literal commas are very common in text data, but literal tab stops are infrequent in running text.
The IANA standard for TSV achieves simplicity by simply disallowing tabs within fields.
- A tab-separated values file is a simple text format for storing data in a tabular structure (e.g. database or spreadsheet data). Each record in the table is one line of the text file. Each field value of a record is separated from the next by a tab stop character – it is a form of the more general delimiter-separated values format.