# Unable to use TAB as a delimiter

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-use-tab-as-a-delimiter/183496>\
**Category:** Logstash\
**Tags:** fleet\
**Created:** [May 30, 2019, 9:16am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-use-tab-as-a-delimiter/183496 "2019-05-30T09:16:46Z")\
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**Author:** ![abramley](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/91b2a8/32.png) [@abramley](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/abramley)\
**Post date:** [May 30, 2019, 9:16am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-use-tab-as-a-delimiter/183496/1 "2019-05-30T09:16:46Z")

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I'm trying to use CSV (but have also tried DISSECT) to bring data into elastic from a TAB delimitered file , the problem is I just can't get it to recognise a TAB. I'm using a centrally managed pipeline so entering the code directly into kibana using chrome.

example data:

```auto
ptime domainid domain maptype ACCID pendname pendip pendclass pendcomm pendmessage
May 10, 2019 7:51:47 AM GMT+00:00 ***1 127.0.0.1	127.0.0.1	Host	password	No response from Ping
May 10, 2019 7:59:08 AM GMT+00:00 ***1 b******* 8	127.0.0.1	Host	password	No response from SNMP agent, AUTODETECT, SNMP-E-ERESPONSE-No response

```

Relevant part of the pipeline:

```auto
      csv {
        separator => "	"
        columns => "ptime","domainid","domain","maptype","ACCID","pendname","pendip","pendclass","pendcomm","pendmessage"
        }

```

The output: Only "ptime" is created and it contains all the message:

Any help would be appreciated.

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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:** [June 27, 2019, 9:26am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-use-tab-as-a-delimiter/183496/2 "2019-06-27T09:26:02Z")

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