Tab-delimited text report files

Tab-delimited text files can be used for further processing.

The tab-delimited text files contain the statistics in tabulated tables. The tab characters and the operating environment-specific line endings delimit the text.
Table 1. Structure of a tab-delimited text report file
Line no. File content Description
1 <report title>, <start time> - <end time> Start and end time define the reporting period in format YYYY/MM/DD hh:mm:ss.
2 <empty line>  
3 <section content for each section> Each section of the report follows the format described in the following table.
Line no. Section content Description
1 <section name>[; <section comment>] Optional section comment with a leading semicolon (;) might follow the section name.
2 <empty line>  
3 <section data> | “No data” Section data follows the format described in the following table. If the section contains no data, the text “No data” is displayed instead.
Section's last line <empty line>  
Line no. Section data content Description
1 <table heading> Tab delimited column labels. Some columns might not have a label, and labels might be padded with trailing spaces.
2 <empty line>  
3 <table rows> Tab delimited values. Value in any given column can be empty. The column values are not padded.
Section data's last line <empty line>