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Summary
Name	Tab-separated Values
Version
Other names
Identifiers	Library of Congress Format Description Identifier: fdd000533 Wikidata QID Identifier: Q3513566 MIME: text/tab-separated-values PUID: x-fmt/13
Family
Classification	Dataset
Disclosure
Description	A tab-separated values file is a simple text format for storing data in a tabular structure (e.g. database or spreadsheet data). Each record in the table is one line of the text file. Each field value of a record is separated from the next by a tab stop character – it is a form of the more general delimiter-separated values format.
Orientation	Text
Byte order
Related file formats	None.
Technical Environment
Released
Supported until
Format Risk
Developed by	None.
Supported by	None.
Source	Digital Preservation Department / The National Archives
Source date	02 Aug 2005
Source description
Last updated	25 Apr 2023
Note	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tab-separated_values https://www.loc.gov/preservation/digital/formats/fdd/fdd000533.shtml