# Dissect filter not removing whitespace padding via suffix "-\>"
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/dissect-filter-not-removing-whitespace-padding-via-suffix/161233
**Category:** Beats
**Tags:** filebeat
**Created:** [December 18, 2018, 2:10am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/dissect-filter-not-removing-whitespace-padding-via-suffix/161233 "2018-12-18T02:10:18Z")
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### Author:  [@boss](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/boss)
#### Post date: [December 18, 2018, 2:10am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/dissect-filter-not-removing-whitespace-padding-via-suffix/161233/1 "2018-12-18T02:10:18Z")
I was under the impression that the suffix `->` would remove all whitespace padding to the right of my field.
Ex.
`"value": "some_value "`
Would become
`"value": "some_value"`
Either that assumption is incorrect or the suffix `->` does not work properly to remove whitespace if there is a non-whitespace character separating the fields.
**Example:**
Log file:
`some_date | some_value | some_text`
Filebeat config:
> ```
> processors:
> - dissect:
> tokenizer: "%{date} | %{value->} | %{text}
>
> ```
Results:
`"date": "some_date"`
`"value": "some_value "`
`"text": "some_text"`
I believe this config should remove the whitespace padding to the right of the "value" field but it does not.
_Note: I have inserted invisible characters into the example above because the elastic discussion parser removed the duplicated spaces automatically. The actual files that I am operating on do not have invisible characters._
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [January 15, 2019, 2:18am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/dissect-filter-not-removing-whitespace-padding-via-suffix/161233/2 "2019-01-15T02:18:17Z")
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