>Sorry, my mistake -- I was running the tests in VFP 6.0 SP5 rather than VFP 9.0 SP2
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>VFP 6.0 imports the data OK, while VFP 9.0 does not. If you use DELIMITED instead of type CSV you can get it to work in VFP 9.0
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>I don't have a copy of VFP 8.0 to see how it behaves in this case.

I wondered. I know the problem only surfaced in VFP 9 apparently from seeing other posts on this. Anyhow, the original poster (Luis) with the problem hasn't responded so I'm moving on.