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# TSV Sample Files

A tab-separated values (TSV) file is a simple text format for storing data in a tabular structure, e.g., database table or spreadsheet data, and a way of exchanging information between databases. 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 character. The TSV format is thus a type of the more general delimiter-separated values format.

TSV is a simple file format that is widely supported, so it is often used in data exchange to move tabular data between different computer programs that support the format. For example, a TSV file might be used to transfer information from a database program to a spreadsheet.

TSV is an alternative to the common comma-separated values (CSV) format, which often causes difficulties because of the need to escape commas – literal commas are very common in text data, but literal tab stops are infrequent in running text. The IANA standard for TSV achieves simplicity by simply disallowing tabs within fields.

#### Licensing:

The computer code and data files described and made available on this web page are distributed under [the GNU LGPL license.](https://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl-3.0.en.html)

#### Sample Files:

These files were converted from open source comma delimited CSV files into the tab delimited TSV/text file.

* [**mlb\_players.tsv**](https://www.mikethetech.com/files/mlb_players.tsv)**,** Major League Baseball Players: Name, Team, Position, height (inches), weight (pounds), age (years). 1034 records, each with six values. There is also an initial header line. (csv [source](https://people.sc.fsu.edu/~jburkardt/data/csv/csv.html), GNU LGPL)
* [**mlb\_teams\_2012.tsv**](https://www.mikethetech.com/files/mlb_teams_2012.tsv)**,** Major League Baseball 2012 Season: Team, Payroll(millions), Wins. 30 records, each with 3 values. There is also an initial header line. (csv [source](https://people.sc.fsu.edu/~jburkardt/data/csv/csv.html), GNU LGPL)
* [**deniro.tsv**](https://www.mikethetech.com/files/deniro.tsv)**,** Rotten Tomato ratings of movies with Robert De Niro. There are 87 records. Each record has Year, Rating, Title. There is also an initial header line. (csv [source](https://people.sc.fsu.edu/~jburkardt/data/csv/csv.html), GNU LGPL)
* [**hw\_200.tsv**](https://www.mikethetech.com/files/hw_200.tsv)**,** height and weight for 200 individuals Each record includes 3 values: index, height (inches), weight (pounds). There is also an initial header line. (csv [source](https://people.sc.fsu.edu/~jburkardt/data/csv/csv.html), GNU LGPL)