# Quoting multi line problems

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/quoting-multi-line-problems/70234>\
**Category:** Meta Elastic\
**Created:** [December 29, 2016, 9:26pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/quoting-multi-line-problems/70234 "2016-12-29T21:26:44Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [December 29, 2016, 9:26pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/quoting-multi-line-problems/70234/1 "2016-12-29T21:26:44Z")

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If I have this line.  
And this line.

And I quote them, they get merged together (see the next post).

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [December 29, 2016, 9:27pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/quoting-multi-line-problems/70234/2 "2016-12-29T21:27:10Z")

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> [@warkolm](#):
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> If I have this line.And this line.

Like so ^.

How come it doesn't respect the CRLF there?

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [December 29, 2016, 9:27pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/quoting-multi-line-problems/70234/3 "2016-12-29T21:27:40Z")

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> [@warkolm](#):
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> Like so ^.
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> How come it doesn't respect the CRLF there?

Having an empty line like so works ok though.

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [February 13, 2017, 3:31am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/quoting-multi-line-problems/70234/4 "2017-02-13T03:31:20Z")

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Any idea on this @system?

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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:** [July 6, 2017, 1:46pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/quoting-multi-line-problems/70234/6 "2017-07-06T13:46:11Z")

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