# CSV.read not able to read properly a simple file

**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/csv-read-not-able-to-read-properly-a-simple-file/18216
**Category:** General Usage
**Created:** [December 2, 2018, 9:35am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/csv-read-not-able-to-read-properly-a-simple-file/18216 "2018-12-02T09:35:30Z")
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### Author: ![Tamas\_Papp](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/tamas_papp/32/25949_2.png) [@Tamas\_Papp](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Tamas_Papp)
#### Post date: [December 2, 2018, 9:41am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/csv-read-not-able-to-read-properly-a-simple-file/18216/2 "2018-12-02T09:41:21Z")

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In general, please [quote your code](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/psa-how-to-quote-code-with-backticks/7530).

Specifically, the issue here could be that the first row has a single cell. The quickest fix may be removing that row with a text editor, adding a cell if that makes sense, or using `skipto`, ie

```julia
CSV.read(filename; delim = ' ', header = false, skipto = 2)

```

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