Tabs within cells?

[darksheik]

I have a case where I have a comma-delimited file, but one of the fields within is tab-separated.

I'm doing something like this:

full_field = ["12345", "67890"]
|> Enum.join("\t")

Doing an IO.puts in iex will successfully render the tab:

full_field = ["12345", "67890"] |> Enum.join("\t")
"12345\t67890"

IO.puts v()
12345   67890

But in the file it stays as a \t. Is there a trick I can be using to ensure a tab character gets to the file?

[beatrichartz]

Hi there, apologies for the late reply - did you get around to solving this? Not quite sure how it relates to the CSV library, could you expand your question?

[beatrichartz]

Closing this, feel free to reopen if help is still needed.