TSV Sample Files
TSV (Tab-Separated Values) files are similar to CSV files but use tabs instead of commas as delimiters. This can be handy when your data contains commas, since tabs rarely appear in field values. TSV files open natively in Excel and most spreadsheet apps.
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Download TSV Sample Files
| File | File type | File size | Rows/Records | Mime type | Download example file |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TSV Sample - 100 Rows | TSV | 7 KB | 100 | text/tab-separated-values | Download example file |
| TSV Sample - 1,000 Rows | TSV | 69 KB | 1,000 | text/tab-separated-values | Download example file |
About TSV files
TSV is essentially CSV with a different separator character. Each row is a line, and columns are separated by tab characters. Because tabs almost never appear in regular text data, TSV files rarely need quoting rules for field values. This makes them simpler to parse than CSV in many cases.
TSV files are popular in bioinformatics, linguistics, and data science. Many command-line tools like cut, awk, and sort work naturally with tab-separated data.
For comma-separated alternatives, see our CSV samples. For a more structured format, try JSON.