What is a .TSV file?
TSV is a plain-text table format storing tab-separated values. Opened in Excel and any text editor.
- Did you know
- TSV is the tab-separated cousin of CSV, useful when the data itself contains commas.
- Because tabs almost never appear inside ordinary text, TSV needs no quoting or escaping rules, unlike CSV where stray commas force complex quoting.
- The text/tab-separated-values media type was registered in the early 1990s by the University of Minnesota team behind the Gopher protocol.
- TSV is popular in bioinformatics and large data pipelines, where its rigid one-tab-per-field rule makes parsing fast and unambiguous.
- A .TSV file is plain text, so you can open and edit it in any text editor.
- What Analyser shows you
- Preview CSV and TSV tables with per-column stats, and view or rasterise SVG vector graphics.
- Open a .TSV file
- Drag a .TSV file onto the Analyser home page (or tap to pick one). It opens entirely in your browser - nothing is uploaded, there is no account, and it works offline once installed.
- Related formats
- .CSV · .SVG. See all supported file types.