# How to split a long line into multiple events
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-split-a-long-line-into-multiple-events/71648
**Category:** Beats
**Created:** [January 15, 2017, 4:00pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-split-a-long-line-into-multiple-events/71648 "2017-01-15T16:00:03Z")
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### Author:  [@jchen.com](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jchen.com)
#### Post date: [January 15, 2017, 4:00pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-split-a-long-line-into-multiple-events/71648/1 "2017-01-15T16:00:03Z")
I have a log file which only have one line.
The records are separated by "^MAAA" within that single line record. Here is an example:
^MAAA20160711,111111,222222^MAAA20160712,33333,44444^MAAA20160713,55555,66666
Above line contains 3 events:
20160711,111111,222222
20160712,33333,44444
20160713,55555,66666
Can somebody give me a hint for how to configure the beats on this situation?
I searched through and most of the posts are for multiplelines -\> single event. I need the other way around.
Thank you in advance,
# John Chen
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### Author:  [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2017, 2:57am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-split-a-long-line-into-multiple-events/71648/2 "2017-01-16T02:57:10Z")
Beats cannot do that, you need to use Logstash.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 5, 2017, 4:00pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-split-a-long-line-into-multiple-events/71648/3 "2017-02-05T16:00:32Z")
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