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in reply to Code Misses a Replacement

I agree with ww. The tab is there.

Try this:

s/,/<\t>/g;

Then, you will see the tab even if your settings prevent it.

On a side note, I would do the whole affair with a one-liner:

perl -pe 's/,/\t/g' < /c/mysql.out > /c/mysql.dshield