Works fine for me in a simple test below. What is different in your case?

#DEFINE ccTAB CHR(9)

CREATE CURSOR Test (pk i, cf1 C(10), cf2 C(10), cf3 C(10), cf4 C(10), cf5 C(10))

TEXT TO lcStr TEXTMERGE NOSHOW
1<<ccTAB>>11<<ccTAB>>12<<ccTAB>>13<<ccTAB>>14<<ccTAB>>15 
2<<ccTAB>>21<<ccTAB>>22<<ccTAB>>23<<ccTAB>>24<<ccTAB>>25 
3<<ccTAB>>31<<ccTAB>><<ccTAB>>33<<ccTAB>><<ccTAB>>35 
4<<ccTAB>>41<<ccTAB>><<ccTAB>><<ccTAB>><<ccTAB>>45 
ENDTEXT

lcFile = "Temp.txt"
STRTOFILE(lcStr, lcFile)

APPEND FROM (lcFile) TYPE DELIMITED WITH TAB

>Has anyone run into a problem with VFP "skipping" empty tab-delimited fields when using an append from command? I have a file where just a few records are not importing properly and see that the file has three empty tabs in a row and VFP simply moves to the next populated field and starts populating away from there!
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>There is another instance in the file where there are three similar blank fields (toward the end of a record) and it imports just fine with empty fields. I've looked at the file with the "show whitespace" and also with Word in show formatting codes mode. I see no difference in the file points that work with the ones that dont.
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>I suppose I can scan down the file looking for two simultaneous tabs, inserting a space between them (hopefully that will work), but seems like such an obvious thing that should just work.
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>Has anyone else run into this problem?