# \_csvparse failure multiline

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/-csvparse-failure-multiline/71700
**Category:** Logstash
**Created:** [January 16, 2017, 9:00am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/-csvparse-failure-multiline/71700 "2017-01-16T09:00:13Z")
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### Author: ![Hassan\_Nashrah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/51bf81/32.png) [@Hassan\_Nashrah](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Hassan_Nashrah)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2017, 9:00am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/-csvparse-failure-multiline/71700/1 "2017-01-16T09:00:13Z")

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```
input {
 file {
    path => "/opt/logstash-5.1.1/bin/01.12.2016.csv"
    start_position => "beginning"
   sincedb_path => "/dev/null"
  }
}
filter {
  csv {
      separator => ","
     columns => ["departureDate","comment","flightNo","passportNo"]
  }

if [departureDate] == "departureDate" { drop{ } }

}
output {
   elasticsearch {
     hosts => "http://192.168.2.26:9200"
     index => "dollar"
  }
stdout { }
}

```

The comment filed has data which is mulitilined, any idea how it can be parsed,, i am getting \_csvparsefailure for those records

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### Author: ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 13, 2017, 9:00am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/-csvparse-failure-multiline/71700/2 "2017-02-13T09:00:48Z")

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