# CSV parse failure

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/csv-parse-failure/25938>\
**Category:** Logstash\
**Created:** [July 20, 2015, 6:40pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/csv-parse-failure/25938 "2015-07-20T18:40:39Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![michaellizhou](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/michaellizhou/32/4143_2.png) [@michaellizhou](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/michaellizhou)\
**Post date:** [July 20, 2015, 6:40pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/csv-parse-failure/25938/1 "2015-07-20T18:40:39Z")

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has anyone come up to the problem with csv parsefailure? I tested with a csv file that does not have double qoutes around each cell. But when I try to parse through a csv with double qoutes around each cell i get an error... i.e. "northbound","node1"...

```
"message" => [
        [0] "\"northbound\",\"node1\",\"\", ...
quote_char has to be a single character String

```

Noticed the problem... The data in one of the column contains double quotes also. Can be viewed on exel fine but why not here.

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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:** [July 6, 2017, 5:34am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/csv-parse-failure/25938/2 "2017-07-06T05:34:11Z")

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