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CSV to TSV Converter

Comma-separated to tab-separated, with the tabs and line breaks inside fields handled.

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Quick Tool Overview

The CSV to TSV Converter reads properly quoted CSV — commas, quotes and line breaks inside fields included — and writes tab-separated text, telling you how it handled anything a TSV cannot hold.

What it does
Converts comma-separated text to tab-separated
You give it
CSV text or a .csv file
You get back
TSV ready to paste into a spreadsheet
Best for
Pasting into sheets and tab-delimited importers
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About the CSV to TSV Converter

Tab-separated text is what you paste into a spreadsheet cell by cell, what many bioinformatics and analytics tools expect, and what avoids the endless argument about commas inside values. Converting to it is not quite a search-and-replace, because a real CSV can hold commas, quotes and line breaks inside a single quoted field.

This reads CSV properly — RFC 4180 quoting, doubled quotes, embedded newlines — and then writes tab-separated text. Because a plain TSV has no way to hold a tab or a line break inside a value, you choose what happens to those: replace them with a space, escape them as \t and \n, or quote the field Excel-style. Ragged rows are padded so the result stays a clean grid, and the count of fields that had to be cleaned is shown so nothing changes silently.

Key features of the CSV to TSV Converter

Real CSV reading

Quoted fields, doubled quotes and embedded line breaks are understood, not split blindly.

You choose the trade-off

Tabs and line breaks inside a field become a space, a \t escape, or a quoted field.

Nothing changes silently

The number of fields that had to be cleaned is reported every time.

Ragged rows squared up

Rows with too few columns are padded so the result stays a clean grid.

LF or CRLF

Pick the line endings the tool on the other side expects.

How to use the CSV to TSV Converter

  1. 1

    Paste or drop the CSV

    The delimiter is detected, or pick it yourself if the file is unusual.

  2. 2

    Decide about tabs inside fields

    Replace with a space, escape as \t and \n, or quote the field.

  3. 3

    Pick the line endings

    LF for Linux and macOS tools, CRLF for Windows and Excel.

  4. 4

    Copy or download the TSV

    Paste it straight into a spreadsheet, or save it as a .tsv file.

Frequently asked questions

Because a quoted field can contain a comma. "M6, zinc" is one value; replacing commas blindly turns it into two and shifts every column after it.

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