[Tutor] creating a tab delimited filename

jrlen balane nbbalane at gmail.com
Mon Mar 14 01:37:35 CET 2005


so for example, i am creating a text file with 
file.write()

how am i going to make the file a tab-delimited file??? any parameters needed???


On Sun, 13 Mar 2005 15:59:46 -0800 (PST), Danny Yoo
<dyoo at hkn.eecs.berkeley.edu> wrote:
> 
> 
> 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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