# How do I read a file with space separated values to become a matrix in Julia?

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**Created:** [June 2, 2017, 2:03pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-do-i-read-a-file-with-space-separated-values-to-become-a-matrix-in-julia/4056 "2017-06-02T14:03:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![phillefjonk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f04885/32.png) [@phillefjonk](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/phillefjonk)\
**Post date:** [June 2, 2017, 2:03pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-do-i-read-a-file-with-space-separated-values-to-become-a-matrix-in-julia/4056/1 "2017-06-02T14:03:40Z")

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I am having problems with types.

I have a text file with three space separated rows with three floats numerical values in each row. Each row ends with CR.

How do I read this file into a 3x3 matrix, holding numerical values in Julia?

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**Author:** ![Paul\_Soderlind](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/paul_soderlind/32/1753_2.png) [@Paul\_Soderlind](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Paul_Soderlind)\
**Post date:** [June 2, 2017, 2:14pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-do-i-read-a-file-with-space-separated-values-to-become-a-matrix-in-julia/4056/2 "2017-06-02T14:14:25Z")

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x = readdlm(“filename”) should do it