add blank variables in data export

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add blank variables in data export

Nick Antoniades
Hello,
 
I am struggling with a rather odd problem. Hopefully there is an easy solution. I have an spss file with 3 variables
 
customernumber spend points.
 
I am trying to export it as a tab delimited file that looks like this
 
customernumber tab spend tab points tab tab tab tab tab tab tab
 
Essentially, I need to add several empty variables at the end. I tried creating empty variables and system missing variables but the output always looks like this

customernumber tab spend tab points tab space tab space tab space tab space tab space tab space tab
SPSS introduces a space in the output for either the empty variables or the system missing variables. I even tried creating a string variable with several tabs as data but even that becomes a space in the output.

Would appreciate any help! Thanks

Nick Antoniades