Problem importing text file with null value

Question

I used the following codes to import a text file and it
worked perfectly.
However, it skipped the TAB (chr(9)) on the imported row when
there is no data (empty string) in one of the columns.
Can someone help? thanks!
sample text file data:
00001 desc1 12.00
00002 25.00
00003 desc2 15.00
Code that I used:
<cffile action="read" file="#FilePath#"
variable="data">
<cfset newLine = chr(13) & chr(10)>
<cfset tabChar = chr(9)>
<cfoutput>
<cfloop list="#data#" index="row"
delimiters="#newLine#">
<cfset cols = listToArray(row, tabChar)>
ID = #cols[1]#
desc = #cols[2]#
price = #cols[3]# <br>
</cfloop>
</cfoutput>

Answer 1

There is no perfect way to handle this with out you writing
more complicated code.
A good compromise is to replace this line:
<cfset cols = listToArray(row, tabChar)>
with this:
<cfset cols = listToArray (Replace (row, tabChar &
tabChar, tabChar & "{empty}" & tabChar, "ALL"),
tabChar)>