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Glossary Data & Encoding

TSV (tab-separated values)

TSV is a plain-text table format in which each line is a row and the columns are separated by tab characters.

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Because tabs rarely appear inside data, TSV needs less quoting than CSV, and spreadsheets paste it straight into cells. A header line id, tab, name followed by one line per record is a typical file. Converters link it with CSV, JSON and Excel.

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See also

  • Glossary CSV
    CSV (comma-separated values) is a plain-text format for tables, with one row per line and values separated by commas.
  • Glossary JSON
    JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) is a lightweight text format for structured data, built from objects, arrays, strings, numbers, true.
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