# Loading tabular data

## How to load data from a tsv file

We can load a file containing tab seperated values with the `load_tabular` app, providing it with the appropriate separator, `sep="\t"`.

## How to load data from a csv file

We can load a file containing comma seperated values with the `load_tabular` app, providing it with the seperator, `sep=","`.

In the above example, `data` is a `cogent3.util.Table` object, if we write it to disk in csv format, we can re-use it for this example too.

Tip

If you are executing this code on your machine, replace `path_to_csv_file` with the path containing your csv file!

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