Building custom export filter: how to insert a tab?

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I am building an export filter, producing CSV that I want to import in XLS.
As a column separator. I would like to use a tab (since comma or semicolon etc will give conflicts for several output fields).
Is that possible, and if so, how?

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Hi,

very simple
just open the layout files with an editor (e.g. notepad++ on windows) and simply press TAB between the heading and also between the fields e.g. \title <TAB> \author
JabRef treats the input file with all spaces and tabs formatted as is, e.g. it doesn’t change anything outside the defined fields or formatters.

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Very simple indeed! Works like a charm, thanks.