Thank you very much for your quick reply,

so this is the first line of the file "lineitem.tbl", so no need to use an offset I think

1|310378689|15378705|1|17|29786.89|0.04|0.02|N|O|1996-03-13|1996-02-12|1996-03-22|DELIVER IN PERSON|TRUCK|egular courts above the|

as for the version, I am using: MonetDB Database Server Toolkit v1.1 (Dec2016-SP5).

So can this may be the cause of the error... an old version?

I am looking forward hearing from you,

Best regards,

Mahmoud Mohsen