# Parsing csv file which contains xml data as a field

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/parsing-csv-file-which-contains-xml-data-as-a-field/98340>\
**Category:** Logstash\
**Created:** [August 25, 2017, 7:22am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/parsing-csv-file-which-contains-xml-data-as-a-field/98340 "2017-08-25T07:22:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![remziay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e47774/32.png) [@remziay](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/remziay)\
**Post date:** [August 25, 2017, 7:22am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/parsing-csv-file-which-contains-xml-data-as-a-field/98340/1 "2017-08-25T07:22:02Z")

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Hello , I have a csv file in which one of the fields contains xml data. I am using csv filter in order to parse the document but logstash is unable to parse it . The error is : **CSV::MalformedCSVError: Illegal quoting in line 1.\>**

Xml data has no new line char so I didn't use multiline codec . Suppose that the csv file is as following :  
**20170808154540830|\<?xml version: "1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?\>|Success**

can you suggest me a way to parse the file with below config?

input {  
file {  
path =\> "/path/\*.csv"  
start\_position =\> “beginning”  
}  
}  
filter {  
csv {  
separator =\> "|"  
columns =\> [“timestamp”,“msg”,“state”]  
}  
}  
output {  
stdout { codec =\> json }  
}

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**Author:** ![immavalls](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/immavalls/32/146501_2.png) [@immavalls](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/immavalls)\
**Post date:** [August 25, 2017, 2:19pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/parsing-csv-file-which-contains-xml-data-as-a-field/98340/2 "2017-08-25T14:19:21Z")

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I'd I suggest using dissect plugin.

```
 dissect {
    mapping => {
        "message" => "%{date}|%{msg}|%{status}"
    }
  }

```

[https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/logstash/current/plugins-filters-dissect.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/logstash/current/plugins-filters-dissect.html)

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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:** [September 22, 2017, 2:19pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/parsing-csv-file-which-contains-xml-data-as-a-field/98340/3 "2017-09-22T14:19:53Z")

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