Invalid TSV Example: Extra Tab Breaks Column Count

This page opens the TSV validator preloaded with an inventory export where one product name — "Laptop Stand Aluminum" — got an extra tab typed in the middle instead of a space, splitting it into two fields. The validator runs on load, so the failure shown below is a live, real check, not a staged screenshot.

This is a very ordinary way real TSV files break: when data is typed or pasted by hand, a stray tab keystroke inside what should be a single product name or description silently adds an extra column to that one row. Because TSV has no visual delimiter the way a comma does, an extra tab is easy to miss just by looking at the text — the row simply has one more field than the header defines.

The result panel below points to the exact row where the count breaks. Compare it against the valid-inventory-tsv preset linked here to see the same three columns without the stray tab, and the stray-quote-tsv preset for a different, equally common TSV failure mode.