diff --git a/plugins/FeedsCSVParser.inc b/plugins/FeedsCSVParser.inc
index 8fa11b0..c6eafa8 100644
--- a/plugins/FeedsCSVParser.inc
+++ b/plugins/FeedsCSVParser.inc
@@ -234,7 +234,7 @@ class FeedsCSVParser extends FeedsParser {
         $sources[] = $mapping['source'];
       }
     }
-    $sep = $this->config['delimiter'];
+    $sep = $this->config['delimiter'] == 'TAB' ? "\t" : $this->config['delimiter'];
     $columns = array();
     foreach (array_merge($uniques, $sources) as $col) {
       if (strpos($col, $sep) !== FALSE) {