# Dealing with quotation marks in a string in timelion

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/dealing-with-quotation-marks-in-a-string-in-timelion/236649>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Tags:** timelion\
**Created:** [June 11, 2020, 8:39am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/dealing-with-quotation-marks-in-a-string-in-timelion/236649 "2020-06-11T08:39:04Z")\
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**Author:** ![Amon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/91b2a8/32.png) [@Amon](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Amon)\
**Post date:** [June 11, 2020, 8:39am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/dealing-with-quotation-marks-in-a-string-in-timelion/236649/1 "2020-06-11T08:39:04Z")

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Dear,

In my dataset I have a column with different string codes, I have a translation of these codes, some mean up others mean down (off course in a different grade). Now I want to make in Timelion an up and a down graph. To accomplish this I'm using the or statement with column x : "value y" or column x : "value z",... now I have the problem that y value (a string f.e. VPN's) contains a quotation mark. For this reason Timelion cannot process my command. Is there a workaround for this quotation mark? If you have a better way visualise this kind of data I'm also very happy to hear about it!

Kind regards,  
Amon

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**Author:** ![Amon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/91b2a8/32.png) [@Amon](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Amon)\
**Post date:** [June 11, 2020, 8:49am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/dealing-with-quotation-marks-in-a-string-in-timelion/236649/2 "2020-06-11T08:49:15Z")

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Dear all,

I found the workaround putting a backslash before the quotation mark does the trick. Anyway, if someone knows a better way to visualise this type of data please let me know.

Kind regards,  
Amon

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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 9, 2020, 8:49am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/dealing-with-quotation-marks-in-a-string-in-timelion/236649/3 "2020-07-09T08:49:15Z")

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