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TSV to CSV

Tabs to commas. One character difference, surprisingly annoying.

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Output

What this does

DEVS: Tab delimiter in, comma delimiter out. Re-quotes fields containing commas. PapaParse handles the edge cases.

Paste tab-separated data, get CSV. Fields containing commas get quoted automatically. Standard RFC 4180 output.

Common use cases

Opening tab-separated data in tools that only accept CSV. Cleaning up data copied from spreadsheets (select cells, paste, and you get TSV). Standardizing delimiters before other conversions.

Things to know

The difference between TSV and CSV is literally one character: tab vs. comma. But that one character matters for quoting. Fields with commas get quoted in CSV output. Newlines within fields are preserved. The conversion handles quoting automatically.

Privacy

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