tsv
What is a .tsv file?
text/tab-separated-values
TSV (Tab-Separated Values) is a plain-text tabular format like CSV but using tab characters as field delimiters. Because tabs rarely appear in data, it often needs less quoting than CSV. It is common in bioinformatics, logs, and command-line data workflows.
How to use a .tsv file
Use an example TSV to test tab-delimited parsing, header and column handling, and pipelines that ingest tabular data from Unix tools or scientific datasets.
Download example .tsv files
- Tab-Separated Values (TSV)A tab-separated values file with a header and 20 rows — for testing TSV parsing and delimiter handling.
- Gravimetric Mass — TSV With Bracketed Units and Spaces in Headers (.tsv)Ten weighings as tab-separated values with headers that contain spaces, brackets and parentheses — 'u(mass) [g]' — the way balance software actually writes them. Column names like these break naive slug-based header handling long before the numbers become a problem.