diff --git a/app/index.html b/app/index.html
index e3c7ca89..95f79649 100644
--- a/app/index.html
+++ b/app/index.html
@@ -121,6 +121,12 @@
             <input type="file" name="source" />
           </div>
         </div>
+        <div class="control-group">
+          <label class="control-label">Separator</label>
+          <div class="controls">
+            <input type="text" name="separator" value="," class="spam1"/>
+          </div>
+        </div>
         <div class="form-actions">
           <button type="submit" class="btn btn-primary">Import &raquo;</button>
         </div>
diff --git a/app/js/app.js b/app/js/app.js
index 839d6306..c60c0266 100755
--- a/app/js/app.js
+++ b/app/js/app.js
@@ -127,9 +127,12 @@ function setupLoader(callback) {
     $('.modal.js-import-dialog-file').modal('hide');
     var $file = $form.find('input[type="file"]')[0];
     var file = $file.files[0];
+    var options = {
+        separator : $form.find('input[name="separator"]').val()
+    };
     recline.Backend.loadFromCSVFile(file, function(dataset) {
       callback(dataset)
-    });
+    }, options);
   });
 }
 
diff --git a/src/backend/localcsv.js b/src/backend/localcsv.js
index fea29d0b..96126fe3 100644
--- a/src/backend/localcsv.js
+++ b/src/backend/localcsv.js
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ this.recline.Backend = this.recline.Backend || {};
     var reader = new FileReader();
     // TODO
     reader.onload = function(e) {
-      var dataset = my.csvToDataset(e.target.result);
+      var dataset = my.csvToDataset(e.target.result, options);
       callback(dataset);
     };
     reader.onerror = function (e) {
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ this.recline.Backend = this.recline.Backend || {};
   };
 
   my.csvToDataset = function(csvString, options) {
-    var out = my.parseCSV(csvString);
+    var out = my.parseCSV(csvString, options);
     fields = _.map(out[0], function(cell) {
       return { id: cell, label: cell };
     });
@@ -91,7 +91,7 @@ this.recline.Backend = this.recline.Backend || {};
 
       // If we are at a EOF or EOR
       if (inQuote === false && (cur === separator || cur === "\n")) {
-        field = processField(field);
+	field = processField(field);
         // Add the current field to the current row
         row.push(field);
         // If this is EOR append row to output and flush row