On Sun, 13 Mar 2005, jrlen balane wrote:
> what does a tab delimited filename mean? how am i going to make this?
> also how does it differs from space delimited, csv, and others?
Hello,
As Kent mentioned, you probably mean "tab delimited file", which means a
file whose lines are split up into columns. Each column is separated by a
tab, which, in theory, should make it easy to parse.
The main difference between a tab-delimited file and the others you
mention is the "delimiter", the separator that's chosen to break columns
apart.
By the way, you might be interested in:
http://www.faqs.org/docs/artu/ch05s02.html#id2901882
which talks a lot more about file formats in Unix and their relative
strengths and weaknesses.
Best of wishes to you!
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