A tab delimited file has a simple structure. Every line (record) has the same number of fields. Each field is separated by the tab character.

Each line of the file cia.txt represents a country. Each has five fields:

A sample from cia.txt:

Lithuania	Europe	65200	3596617	45230000000
Luxembourg	Europe	2586	468571	27270000000

We split the line on the tab character and copy each field into a variable with an appropriate name and an appropriate type.

In a tab delimited file we need to convert each field from a String to the appropriate type if required.

This program prints the name for every country with a large population.

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