# Reading (big) ascii files

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**Category:** Data\
**Created:** [April 3, 2019, 2:25pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/reading-big-ascii-files/22697 "2019-04-03T14:25:46Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 3, 2019, 3:43pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/reading-big-ascii-files/22697/3 "2019-04-03T15:43:59Z")

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Note also that if you have a CSV file (comma-separated values — one value per line is a special case of this), then the [CSV.jl package](https://github.com/JuliaData/CSV.jl) can work in a streaming fashion that only reads a portion of the data at a time. (Use `limit=N` to tell it to read N lines at a time.) See also [this discussion](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/reading-huge-csv-files/15924).

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