Guessed, thanks for helping. Your input is very helpful... indeed, issue is clearly the line break character.

I generate the .txt file with PHP and I use PHP_EOL for line break, which adds \r, \n\, or both \r\n, depending of server (Windows or Linux) - I need to check this. Also, it seems that opening files in txt mode in Windows will also change CRLF into CR...

Well, I need to do more testing.
a) Use something else than PHP_EOL for line break (in PHP)
b) Clean the line in VBA before splitting, to remove any vbLf, vbCr, vbCrLf and/or vbNewLine.

Thanks a lot

I wish there was a way to avoid this, generating