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.