# How to set /n as delimiter in dissect filter
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-set-n-as-delimiter-in-dissect-filter/112588
**Category:** Logstash
**Created:** [December 20, 2017, 8:49am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-set-n-as-delimiter-in-dissect-filter/112588 "2017-12-20T08:49:33Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@George\_Cherian](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/George_Cherian)
#### Post date: [December 20, 2017, 8:49am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-set-n-as-delimiter-in-dissect-filter/112588/1 "2017-12-20T08:49:33Z")
Hi Elastic Team,
I need to filter of the field with \n as the delimiter in dissect filter.
Saw that logstash 6.0 has feature enabled.
config.support\_escapes: true
The filter what I have written is as follows;
```
dissect {
mapping => {
balsdata => "%{}Privacy:%{Privacy:}\n%{}"
}
```
The above didn't work for me. Is it possible to do the above use case using dissect filter. If possible what is the changes to be made to filter.
Thanks
George
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### Author:  [@dorj1234](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dorj1234)
#### Post date: [January 4, 2018, 4:09pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-set-n-as-delimiter-in-dissect-filter/112588/2 "2018-01-04T16:09:31Z")
> [@George\_Cherian](#):
>
> of the field with \n as the delimiter in dissect filter.
>
> Saw that logstash 6.0 has feature enabled.
I wonder if you found a solution to this issue. I am having a similar challenge using config.support\_escapes: true
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### Author:  [@guyboertje](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/guyboertje)
#### Post date: [January 4, 2018, 5:14pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-set-n-as-delimiter-in-dissect-filter/112588/3 "2018-01-04T17:14:28Z")
You can use an actual newline but there is a bug about this.
e.g.
```auto
input {
generator {
message => "
"
count => 1
}
}
filter {
dissect {
mapping => {
message => '<%{time}> <%{data1}> <%{data2}> <%{data3}> <%{data4}> <%{data5}> <%{data6}> <%{data7}>
<%{data8}>%{rest}'
}
}
}
output {
stdout {
codec => rubydebug
}
}
```
notice the multiline single quoted string - for the `message => ''` line.
This bug is preventing it really working though. [https://github.com/logstash-plugins/logstash-filter-dissect/issues/47](https://github.com/logstash-plugins/logstash-filter-dissect/issues/47)
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### Author:  [@George\_Cherian](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/George_Cherian)
#### Post date: [January 17, 2018, 10:39am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-set-n-as-delimiter-in-dissect-filter/112588/4 "2018-01-17T10:39:25Z")
Hi ,
First of all ,thank you for your response and apologies for delayed reply.
I tried dissect filter as you suggested but it didn't work. My filter is as below:
```
dissect {
mapping => {
balsdata => '%{}Privacy:%{Privacy:}
%{}'
```
and also I have made the below config change in logstash .yml:
config.support\_escapes: true
Please suggest if I have to try it out in a different way.
Thanks
George
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 14, 2018, 10:39am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-set-n-as-delimiter-in-dissect-filter/112588/5 "2018-02-14T10:39:43Z")
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