tab delimited text

So I'm working on some C++ code to run through an excel spread sheet I've downloaded. I'm storing the entire input into a one dimensional array. The problem is when I save the document as a tab delimited text file it doesn't add an additional tab in front of the first variable in each row. So when I try to call the first value of each row it will additionally pull the last value of the row before it, reading the two of them as one value.

My question is, do you guys know of a solution off hand? Maybe a better program to save the sheet from, or a better converter? Also, since there are strings in the spread sheet with multiple commas, csv is not the answer I'm looking for.

Thanks a lot guys.

No I haven't, could you explain a bit?