Adding tab characters

[Kerry.Thurber@gmail.com]

Hello everyone,

I'm missing something obvious I think.  I want to create a tab
delimited file using emacs.  I can do it fine with a keyboard macro,
but I need to make something permanent that others can use.

(defun CreateTabDelimitedFile()
  "Convert JED logs into something Scott can use"
  (interactive)
  (beginning-of-buffer)
  (replace-string ";" "\009")  ;tried many other variants
)

In place of "\009" I tried ^I, ^Tab, an actual tab, "[tab]" and
everything else I could imagine.  Nothing seems to work.  Is there a
way to replace a string with a tab character?  Is there a way to
replace a string with another string *plus* a tab character?

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks,
Kerry