Hi Cetin

Thanks for the reply.

I wasn't aware that one could 'double - delimit' like that. Amazing.

Regards
Geoff Scott

>>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