# Converting CSV to Points

**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/converting-csv-to-points/9670
**Category:** ParaView Support
**Created:** [May 24, 2022, 4:50pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/converting-csv-to-points/9670 "2022-05-24T16:50:57Z")
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### Author: ![Michael\_Jackson](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/michael_jackson/32/293_2.png) [@Michael\_Jackson](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Michael_Jackson)
#### Post date: [May 24, 2022, 4:50pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/converting-csv-to-points/9670/1 "2022-05-24T16:50:57Z")

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I have the following CSV file:

x,y,z,Temp  
0,0,0,1  
4,0,0,2  
0,4,0,3  
4,4,0,4  
0,0,8,5  
4,0,8,6  
0,4,8,7

I import it into ParaView using the standard CSV reader. Then I try to apply the Table to Points filter, select the appropriate X, Y and Z columns and then I get an error thrown. This is with 5.10.1 version (both ARM64 and x64 versions on macOS).

````auto
vtkTableToPolyData (0x600000ccc000): Failed to locate the columns to use for the point coordinates

ERROR: In /opt/glr/paraview/paraview-ci/build/superbuild/paraview/src/VTK/Common/ExecutionModel/vtkExecutive.cxx, line 753
vtkPVCompositeDataPipeline (0x600000e06140): Algorithm vtkTableToPolyData(0x600000ccc000) returned failure for request: vtkInformation (0x6000029b6480)
  Debug: Off
  Modified Time: 458315
  Reference Count: 1
  Registered Events: (none)
  Request: REQUEST_DATA
  FROM_OUTPUT_PORT: 0
  ALGORITHM_AFTER_FORWARD: 1
  FORWARD_DIRECTION: 0```

Anyone have any ideas? 
4,4,8,8
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### Author: ![Christos\_Tsolakis](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/christos_tsolakis/32/4450_2.png) [@Christos\_Tsolakis](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Christos_Tsolakis)
#### Post date: [May 24, 2022, 5:49pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/converting-csv-to-points/9670/2 "2022-05-24T17:49:22Z")

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You file and steps look ok, see below. I cannot replicate the error on my linux machine.

 ![Screenshot from 2022-05-24 13-48-38](https://discourse.paraview.org/uploads/default/original/2X/4/424dca6807998d45b4e9e974b6a0896b3ddfb243.png)

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### Author: ![Michael\_Jackson](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/michael_jackson/32/293_2.png) [@Michael\_Jackson](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Michael_Jackson)
#### Post date: [May 24, 2022, 6:11pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/converting-csv-to-points/9670/3 "2022-05-24T18:11:35Z")

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Nevermind. The file was a UTF8 file. Once I removed the magic 3 bytes ParaView didn’t have any issues.