Alternate delimiter on output file

[d-yarmosh]

icite -H $PMID -c > $PMID.txt

I would love to use this tool in a program, but the only issue I have is that it is meant to be human-readable, rather than machine-readable. I mean this in the sense that it is space-delimited to keep the columns in line, but the number of spaces is naturally inconsistent.

Is there an option for the output of the above command to be tab-delimited instead? Comma delimiting seems dangerous due to the paper names potentially containing commas. Standard commands to convert spaces to tabs fail due to the paper names and limiting to only consecutive spaces causes issues with columns 5, 6, and 7 where they are often only separated by a single space.

Thanks!