Building a CSV with TAB Delimited

Apex 3.1.2
Customer wants to build a Apex Report with CSV output, but have TAB delimited columns, not comma delimited. Any ideas on how to insert a TAB into the CSV "Separator" column?
Thanks,
Dwight

Thanks Tony.
Appears that in my version of Apex at least, only one character can be entered in the "Separator" column so putting "\t" doesn't work. Going to massage the file afterwards. Thanks for the help.
Dwight

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