Found the problem!

I will use the '^' character to represent the tab. This is how
I was writing out the file:

\<>^

Change it to

\<>

and it works. I had inadvertantely put a TAB after the closing >> symbols.

Problem solved and it was my fault...
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>How do you write the string to the file?
>
>Vlad
>
>>Paul, I did trace this and even returned the method call
>>to a variable before writing it out via \\<>. The
>>length should be 94 bytes and that is the length of lcvar.
>>I did an AT(CHR(9),lcvar) and it did not show any tabs (chr(9)).
>>
>>When I write the file out and edit it, the tab is there. Any
>>ideas?