not enough values to unpack (expected 5, got 1)

[wangzhaohui-001]

Hello , i get below error
Reading the contact counts file to generate bins...
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/ug1561/.conda/envs/py39/bin/fithic", line 10, in
sys.exit(main())
File "/home/ug1561/.conda/envs/py39/lib/python3.9/site-packages/fithic/fithic.py", line 317, in main
(mainDic,observedInterAllCount,observedInterAllSum,observedIntraAllSum,observedIntraInRangeSum) = read_Interactions(contactCountsFile, biasFile)
File "/home/ug1561/.conda/envs/py39/lib/python3.9/site-packages/fithic/fithic.py", line 413, in read_Interactions
ch1,mid1,ch2,mid2,contactCount=lines.split()
ValueError: not enough values to unpack (expected 5, got 1)

[aryakaul]

Hello,

The error indicates that your contact counts file is incorrectly formatted. Can you show the first 5 lines of the file? I suspect it is because they are not tab separated.