diff --git a/lib/var_funcs.py b/lib/var_funcs.py
index 9fee346..a3ca1ce 100644
--- a/lib/var_funcs.py
+++ b/lib/var_funcs.py
@@ -510,7 +510,8 @@
 
 
 def list_to_report(report_list,
-                   to_lower=1):
+                   to_lower=1,
+                   field_delim=None):
     r"""
     Convert a list containing report text lines to a report "object" and
     return it.
@@ -573,6 +574,9 @@
                                     contain spaces.
     to_lower                        Change the resulting key names to lower
                                     case.
+    field_delim                     Indicates that there are field delimiters
+                                    in report_list entries (which should be
+                                    removed).
     """
 
     if len(report_list) <= 1:
@@ -580,6 +584,9 @@
         # return an empty array.
         return []
 
+    if field_delim is not None:
+        report_list = [re.sub("\\|", "", line) for line in report_list]
+
     header_line = report_list[0]
     if to_lower:
         header_line = header_line.lower()