FYI - In attempting to import tab delimited ASCII txt files from a 3rd party source, where an empty field was ocassionaly simply identified as two tabs in sequence, VFP7 disregarded the field, causing all fields to the right to be displaced one field leftwards.

The fix was to place double quotes "" between the two adjacent tabs. The solution is a simple inline reconstructor function for the ASCII text file which will search for adjacent tabs and replace them with tab" "tab, to be used prior to actual imports.