# Grok match handel special characters, \_grokparsefailure

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/grok-match-handel-special-characters--grokparsefailure/55417
**Category:** Logstash
**Created:** [July 13, 2016, 2:10pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/grok-match-handel-special-characters--grokparsefailure/55417 "2016-07-13T14:10:30Z")
**Posts on this page:** 1
**Showing post:** 3

<div class="post-metadata">

### Author: ![govereem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b9e5f3/32.png) [@govereem](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/govereem)
#### Post date: [July 14, 2016, 7:01am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/grok-match-handel-special-characters--grokparsefailure/55417/3 "2016-07-14T07:01:08Z")

</div>

Thank you for the quick answer, I will try it out, I just saw this section, what I couldn’t find yesterday [\_grokparsefailure when parsing IIS logs if the %{URIPATH:page} has square brackets [] in it](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/-grokparsefailure-when-parsing-iis-logs-if-the-uripath-page-has-square-brackets-in-it/33416) were you answered the same.

---

_[View the full topic](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/grok-match-handel-special-characters--grokparsefailure/55417)._