What are some best practices for efficiently parsing and manipulating tab-separated values in PHP files?

Parsing and manipulating tab-separated values in PHP files can be efficiently done using the built-in functions like `fgetcsv()` and `implode()`. By using `fgetcsv()` to read the tab-separated values line by line and `implode()` to concatenate the values with tabs, you can easily manipulate the data. Additionally, using `explode()` to split the tab-separated values into an array for further processing can be helpful. 

// Open the file for reading
$file = fopen('data.tsv', 'r');

// Loop through each line in the file
while (($line = fgetcsv($file, 0, "\t")) !== false) {
    // Manipulate the tab-separated values as needed
    $modifiedLine = implode("\t", $line);

    // Split the tab-separated values into an array
    $valuesArray = explode("\t", $modifiedLine);

    // Further processing of the valuesArray
}

// Close the file
fclose($file);

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