Tab-Delimited Files Are:

Text Files that have separate fields separated by tabs. Each line in the file contains one record.

 

Example:

First Name Initial Last Name Street City State Zip
Frederick F. Johnson 125 Weston MyCity CA 12345
 

 

Depending on how the file was created, it may or may not have the heading line.

As a program imports a tab delimited file, it reads each line, selects the data from between the tabs, and adds it to the new format according to instructions.