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Data glossary/Tab-separated values

Tab-separated values

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Tab-separated values, or TSV is a standard format for spreadsheet data. As it sounds, data values are separated by tabs rather than commas.

As it name suggests, each field value of a record is separated from the next by a tab character.

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