# Readdlm: ignore\_invalid\_chars option does not exist anymore

**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/readdlm-ignore-invalid-chars-option-does-not-exist-anymore/5632
**Category:** General Usage
**Created:** [August 30, 2017, 3:36pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/readdlm-ignore-invalid-chars-option-does-not-exist-anymore/5632 "2017-08-30T15:36:37Z")
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### Author: ![mauro3](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/mauro3/32/292_2.png) [@mauro3](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/mauro3)
#### Post date: [August 30, 2017, 3:36pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/readdlm-ignore-invalid-chars-option-does-not-exist-anymore/5632/1 "2017-08-30T15:36:37Z")

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I had a script which using the kw-option `ignore_invalid_chars` (julia 0.4) read a file fine. Now this option does not exist anymore ([https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/16058](https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/16058)) and running it without it on my file gives:

```julia
julia> readdlm("AD281106_example.CSV")                                                                                                                
ERROR: at row 2, column 3 : UnicodeError: invalid character index)                                                                                    
Stacktrace:                                                                                                                                           
 [1] dlm_parse(::String, ::Char, ::Char, ::Char, ::Char, ::Bool, ::Bool, ::Bool, ::Int64, ::Bool, ::Base.DataFmt.DLMOffsets) at ./datafmt.jl:610      
 [2] readdlm_string(::String, ::Char, ::Type, ::Char, ::Bool, ::Dict{Symbol,Union{Char, Integer, Tuple{Integer,Integer}}}) at ./datafmt.jl:343        
 [3] #readdlm_auto#11(::Array{Any,1}, ::Function, ::String, ::Char, ::Type{T} where T, ::Char, ::Bool) at ./datafmt.jl:132                            
 [4] #readdlm#7 at ./datafmt.jl:81 [inlined]                                                                                                          
 [5] readdlm(::String, ::Char, ::Char) at ./datafmt.jl:81                                                                                             
 [6] #readdlm#5(::Array{Any,1}, ::Function, ::String) at ./datafmt.jl:64                                                                              
 [7] readdlm(::String) at ./datafmt.jl:64                                                                                                             

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The file can be found here: [https://gist.github.com/mauro3/8bf1448cf05356458710c02572722c88](https://gist.github.com/mauro3/8bf1448cf05356458710c02572722c88)

I’m after a quick fix…