Why this sample is useful
It demonstrates the cases that break naive line-splitting: delimiter characters and record-like line breaks inside quoted fields.
A TSV sample that exercises the format
Open a small fictional city dataset containing decimals, commas, a quoted tab, and a quoted newline.
- Choose or drop one TSV file, or try the city sample.
- Inspect columns, edit cells, and optionally filter or sort rows.
- Use Download a copy for the complete TSV, or More document tools → TSV for the filtered view.
Files of 8 MiB or larger open in a paged TSV editor. Active-view TSV, CSV and JSON downloads are available for files under 8 MiB.
Fictional and reusable
The descriptive notes are fictional and provided for testing and demonstration. You may copy, modify, and redistribute this sample.
TSV questions and answers
What does the TSV sample demonstrate?
The fictional city sample includes decimals, commas, quoted tabs and a quoted newline. It exercises TSV parsing without using personal data and may be copied or adapted for testing.
What are the TSV file and export limits?
Ordinary viewing accepts one file up to 5 GiB, subject to browser capacity. Files of 8 MiB or larger use a paged editor. Batch CSV and JSON conversion accepts files up to 1 GiB, subject to available browser storage, with cells under 1 million characters, records under 4 million characters and up to 4,096 columns. Without browser file storage, results are limited to 32 MiB. Active-view editor exports require files under 8 MiB. Merge accepts 2 to 20 files with a 50 MiB combined limit.
Does my TSV file leave my browser?
Selection, parsing, editing, merging and conversion run locally without signup or file-content upload. Download a copy to keep your work. Reload restores the original input, not unsaved edits.