# Logstash not parsing data properly

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-not-parsing-data-properly/221912>\
**Category:** Logstash\
**Created:** [March 3, 2020, 3:13pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-not-parsing-data-properly/221912 "2020-03-03T15:13:08Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Vishnu\_mk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/71c47a/32.png) [@Vishnu\_mk](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Vishnu_mk)\
**Post date:** [March 3, 2020, 3:13pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-not-parsing-data-properly/221912/1 "2020-03-03T15:13:09Z")

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My csv file contains **^M** character ( ^ M ) characters are introduced when you use lines of text from a windows computer to **Linux** or Unix machine

How should i get rid of ^M character in logstash

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**Author:** ![Badger](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/badger/32/25190_2.png) [@Badger](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Badger)\
**Post date:** [March 3, 2020, 4:25pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-not-parsing-data-properly/221912/2 "2020-03-03T16:25:56Z")

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Use mutate

```
mutate { gsub => ["message", "^M", ""] }

```

Where ^M is ctrl/M, entered using ctrl/V ctrl/M.

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**Author:** ![Vishnu\_mk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/71c47a/32.png) [@Vishnu\_mk](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Vishnu_mk)\
**Post date:** [March 4, 2020, 7:17am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-not-parsing-data-properly/221912/3 "2020-03-04T07:17:09Z")

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> [@Badger](#):
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> mutate { gsub =\> ["message", "^M", ""] }

Sir , still the problem persist.

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**Author:** ![Vishnu\_mk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/71c47a/32.png) [@Vishnu\_mk](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Vishnu_mk)\
**Post date:** [March 5, 2020, 12:20pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-not-parsing-data-properly/221912/4 "2020-03-05T12:20:39Z")

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it got resolve by below command

mutate { gsub =\> ["message", "[\r]", "" ] }

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [April 2, 2020, 12:20pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-not-parsing-data-properly/221912/5 "2020-04-02T12:20:52Z")

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