# Question about DelimitedFiles
**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/question-about-delimitedfiles/43980
**Category:** Data
**Tags:** question, package
**Created:** [July 30, 2020, 1:57pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/question-about-delimitedfiles/43980 "2020-07-30T13:57:42Z")
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### Author:  [@afazevedo](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/afazevedo)
#### Post date: [July 30, 2020, 1:57pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/question-about-delimitedfiles/43980/1 "2020-07-30T13:57:42Z")
I’m having problems using the readdlm function of the DelimitedFiles package. I am reading two instances from a file. Both have this interface:
20\_190\c\_v20\_a190\_d4.txt
```julia
20 190 4
0 1 71
0 2 65
0 3 66
0 4 78
0 5 59
...
```
20\_190\c\_v20\_a190\_d6.txt
```julia
20 190 6
0 1 23
0 2 58
0 3 89
0 4 21
0 5 62
...
```
When I use the command for the instance c\_v20\_a190\_d6.txt it goes well:
```julia
using DelimitedFiles
n = readdlm("20_190\\c_v20_a190_d6.txt", Int)[1,1]
julia> 20
```
But when i try to read c\_v20\_a190\_d4.txt
```julia
using DelimitedFiles
n = readdlm("20_190\\c_v20_a190_d4.txt", Int)[1,1]
```
It gives an error like:
```julia
ERROR: LoadError: at row 2, column 1 : ErrorException("missing value at row 1 column 4")
```
what am I doing wrong?
best regards!
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### Author:  [@hendri54](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/hendri54)
#### Post date: [July 30, 2020, 5:45pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/question-about-delimitedfiles/43980/2 "2020-07-30T17:45:44Z")
My guess would be that what appears to be whitespace in the header is another character.
Is it intentional that the header is (apparently) space separated while the body is tab separated?
I would try to hand-edit the first row of the `d4` file to replace whatever separates the entries with tabs and see what happens.