# Readdlm \> strange behaviour

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/readdlm-strange-behaviour/46765>\
**Category:** General Usage\
**Created:** [September 17, 2020, 9:29am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/readdlm-strange-behaviour/46765 "2020-09-17T09:29:20Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![programista](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/programista/32/5372_2.png) [@programista](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/programista)\
**Post date:** [September 17, 2020, 9:29am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/readdlm-strange-behaviour/46765/1 "2020-09-17T09:29:20Z")

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![file_error](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/original/3X/f/4/f46db3f87a8934a2016dcf07e401c1b5598d7603.png)  
I heve 14 line in file but readdlm reads only no empty lines ? What wrong ?

```julia
julia> readdlm("file.txt",'\t')
3×1 Array{Any,2}:
 "00-028"
 "reqweae"
 "qwe"

julia> readdlm("file.txt",'\r')
3×1 Array{Any,2}:
 "00-028"
 "reqweae"
 "qwe"

julia> readdlm("file.txt",'\n')
3×1 Array{Any,2}:
 "00-028"
 "reqweae"
 "qwe"

julia> readdlm("file.txt",'\t',String)
3×1 Array{String,2}:
 "00-028"
 "reqweae"
 "qwe"

julia> readdlm("file.txt",'\n',String)
3×1 Array{String,2}:
 "00-028"
 "reqweae"
 "qwe"

julia>

julia> readdlm("file.txt",'\r',String)
3×1 Array{String,2}:
 "00-028"
 "reqweae"
 "qwe"

```

Paul

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**Author:** ![Sukera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce7236/32.png) [@Sukera](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Sukera)\
**Post date:** [September 17, 2020, 10:06am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/readdlm-strange-behaviour/46765/2 "2020-09-17T10:06:31Z")

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```julia
help?> readdlm
  [...]
  
  readdlm(source, delim::AbstractChar, T::Type, eol::AbstractChar; header=false, skipstart=0, skipblanks=true, use_mmap, quotes=true, dims, comments=false, comment_char='#')

  [...]

  If skipblanks is true, blank lines in the input will be ignored.

  [...]

```

Use `readdlm(source, skipblanks=false)`.