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Delimited Text Extractor — Pull One Column from CSV or TSV

Extract one column from CSV, TSV, or any delimited text. Pick by column number or header name. RFC 4180 compliant.

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How to use

  1. 1 Paste your CSV / TSV / pipe-separated text.
  2. 2 Pick the delimiter and indicate whether the first row is a header.
  3. 3 Choose by column number (1-indexed) or by header name.
  4. 4 Copy the one-value-per-line output.

Why use this tool

  • RFC 4180 CSV parser handles quoted fields, escaped quotes, embedded newlines.
  • Pick by header name — column position changes do not break your workflow.
  • Custom delimiter for unusual separators (regex-free, plain string match).
  • Output one value per line — ready to paste into another tool or spreadsheet column.

Frequently asked questions

Are columns 0-indexed or 1-indexed?

1-indexed — column 1 is the leftmost. This matches how non-programmers think about spreadsheets.

What if a row is missing the picked column?

You get a blank line in the output for that row, so positional alignment with the input is preserved.

Does header-name match care about case?

Yes — case- and whitespace-sensitive after a single trim on each side. Pick "by number" if your headers are inconsistent.

Related?

Use CSV to JSON Converter to keep all columns as structured data, or Deduplicate Lines / Sort Lines to clean up the extracted column.

What is Delimited Text Extractor?

A Delimited Text Extractor is a tool that pulls a single column out of CSV, TSV, or any delimited text. It can select the column by its number or by its header name and parses input in an RFC 4180 compliant way. Running entirely in the browser, it extracts column data without uploading files to a server, handling quoted fields and varied delimiters correctly.

Features

Pick by number or header

Extract a column by its 1-based index, or by matching a header name in the first row.

Any delimiter

Comma, tab, pipe, semicolon, space, or a custom delimiter you supply.

RFC 4180 parsing

Correctly handles quoted fields, embedded delimiters, and escaped quotes.

100% private

Runs client-side — your data never leaves the browser.

Example

Input

name,age,city
Alice,30,NYC
Bob,25,SF
Carol,40,LA   (extract column 2)

Output

30
25
40

Common use cases

  1. 1

    Extract a list of emails

    Pull just the email column out of an exported CSV into a plain newline-separated list.

  2. 2

    Feed one column to a script

    Grab a single field from a spreadsheet export without opening a spreadsheet app.

  3. 3

    Handle non-comma data

    Extract a column from tab- or pipe-delimited logs and reports.

Summary

Zerethon's delimited text extractor pulls a single column out of CSV, TSV, or any delimited text in your browser. You select the column by its 1-based number or by its header name, and the parser handles quoted fields and custom delimiters per RFC 4180. Files are never uploaded.

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Privacy

Your data never leaves your browser unless explicitly stated. Delimited Text Extractor runs entirely client-side — no server upload, no logging, no tracking of your input.

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