Or, you just escape the tab. \t style. (Well, then you need to escape \\, and \n, etc). Really, it just gets messy at that point. Which is why I try to avoid fr

Or, you just escape the tab. \t style. (Well, then you need to escape \\, and \n, etc). Really, it just gets messy at that point. Which is why I try to avoid free text in tab delimited files. It's not much better in CSV if you allow newlines within cells.