How to create a user account from a text file input

Need to create a bash script to create a username from a file which contains below (username home directory full name) drs /home/drs Paranas Theruwalan My script: !#/bin/bash #call data from file file="file.txt" USERNAME=$(cat file.txt | cut -d: -f1) USER_FULLNAME=$(cat file.txt | cut -d: -f2) useradd -m ($USERNAME) -c ($USER_FULNAME) I getting invalid username error.