I may be missing something, but when I need to do something along these 
lines I open in Numbers (or Excel), which allows an immediate visual 
confirmation of column integrity. 

On Friday, March 17, 2023 at 3:48:56 PM UTC-7 Laurel Cooper wrote:

> I work with large, tsv-formatted text files The files are 17 column text 
> files with the columns separated by tabs.  I need to be able to see that 
> none of the tabs are missing. 
> I can see the tab stops by turning on "Show invisibles", but in some lines 
> the tabs are basically on top of each other, and in other places, the text 
> is on top of them.  
> Is there a better way to display these files? 
> I took a screen shot as an example:
> Thanks!
>
> [image: tsv.jpg]
>

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