Hello, I’ve put together a new library / gem, that is, tabreader - that lets you read in tabular datafiles in text in the tab format; yes, uses values = line.split("/t") or use the packaged up TabReader.parse_line( ... ) or any of the convenience helpers incl. TabHashReader.parse for returning hashes (with named value pairs) instead of arrays (with a list of values by position/index). The readme includes why CSV.read( col_sep: "\t", quote_char: "∅" ) is NOT recommended and why tab is its own (simpler) format than the classic comma-separated values (csv) format. Happy data wrangling with ruby. Cheers. Prost.