>Hi
>
>I have a little problem whereby double quotes in a TAB delimeted text file are being treated as field delimiters (i.e. a " causes subsequent fields to be displaced)
>
>Why is this???
>Can I stop this behaviour???
>
>Surely one of the points about tab delimited files is that what is between the tabs is one field.
>
>Regards
>Geoff Scott

Geoff,
I think it's reader application's fault.
In VFP7 and up (not sure VFP6) you can drop doublequotes :
copy to myfile.txt type delimited with "" with tab
Cetin