In addition to the two corrections by others, your textfile.dat is not in a suitable format. You are telling quotewords that you want to use spaces as a delimiter, but your textfile.dat has records which aren't seperated by spaces "Leppala"01261907 does not have a space in it. "Saukville""WI" doesn't either which will result in you getting Leppala01261907 and SaukvilleWI as records.