TXT and TVS DATA FILE FORMAT

 

The TXT (Text Separated by Tabs) or TSV (Tab Separated Values), is a simple text data that allows tabular data to be exchanged between applications with a different internal format. Values separated by tabs have been officially registered as a MIME type (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions) under the name text/tab-separated-values.

 

The characteristics of these files are the following

 

The TXT (Text Separated by Tabulators) or TSV (Tab/Text Separated Values) data files must have the following format:

attribute1<TAB>attribute<TAB>...<TAB>attributeN
value11
<TAB>value12<TAB> ... <TAB> value1N
...
valueM1
<TAB>valueM2<TAB> ... <TAB>valueMN

 

 One example of valid TXT or TSV file is the following:

FirstName <TAB> LastName <TAB> Company <TAB> EmailAddress
Johnathan
<TAB> Doe <TAB> ABC Company <TAB> johndoe@abccompany.com
Harrie
<TAB>Wong <TAB>Company <TAB>  Inc. hwong@myprovider.com
Mary
<TAB> Jo Smith <TAB> Any <TAB> Corp <TAB> mjsmith@myprovider.com"