TAdvMemo won't load tabs from file

Hi, I have a TAdvMemo which I load from a text file using Lines->LoadFromFile("myfile.txt"). The file contains tabs but these are replaced by spaces when shown in the control.  Is there any way to prevent this?  I need to then be able to read a line of text from the control and process it including the tabs.Thx.

TAdvMemo will replace a tab by 8 spaces which is also what happens when the user types the TAB char. There is at this moment not a setting to change this behavior.