# How can I read back a delimited file with mixed column types involving vectors

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**Category:** General Usage\
**Tags:** question, csv, io\
**Created:** [May 15, 2022, 2:18am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-can-i-read-back-a-delimited-file-with-mixed-column-types-involving-vectors/81082 "2022-05-15T02:18:37Z")\
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**Post date:** [May 15, 2022, 6:17am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-can-i-read-back-a-delimited-file-with-mixed-column-types-involving-vectors/81082/2 "2022-05-15T06:17:47Z")

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You need to use a file format which supports reading and writing vectors, not a plain text file.

Same discussion was had here: [DataFrames/CSV: how to read vectors from \*.csv?](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/dataframes-csv-how-to-read-vectors-from-csv/57883)

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