The following problems are different. They involve basic, widely encountered statistical issues. It has a serious defect. You might want to try these problems on mainframe packages as well. You may be surprised by the results.
Many programs claim to import data files directly.
Most programs can handle this case. Some spreadsheets and word processors do this when they impose margins on a page. A statistical package ought to be able to read these two records as a single case without special instructions. If, on the other hand, this is considered an error, then the program should be able to flag it. SAS, SPSS, and other packages put missing values in a file this way.