# Logstash ignoring characters from beginning of line
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-ignoring-characters-from-beginning-of-line/20498
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [October 30, 2014, 1:55pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-ignoring-characters-from-beginning-of-line/20498 "2014-10-30T13:55:02Z")
**Posts on this page:** 2
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### Author:  [@ES\_USER1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ES_USER1)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2014, 1:55pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-ignoring-characters-from-beginning-of-line/20498/1 "2014-10-30T13:55:02Z")
I posted this in the logstash group as well but since this is a pretty big
bug I thought I would link to it here.
[https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/logstash-users/pk-BEUcTuyM](https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/logstash-users/pk-BEUcTuyM)
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2017, 12:53am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-ignoring-characters-from-beginning-of-line/20498/2 "2017-07-06T00:53:00Z")