# Use grok to skip seperators lines **URL:** \ **Category:** Logstash\ **Created:** [September 14, 2018, 7:08pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/use-grok-to-skip-seperators-lines/148672 "2018-09-14T19:08:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Talal\_Elammas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b5ac83/32.png) [@Talal\_Elammas](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Talal_Elammas)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2018, 7:08pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/use-grok-to-skip-seperators-lines/148672/1 "2018-09-14T19:08:06Z")
Hello, I have a log file structured as 2 line separators then the log data , I created my parser for the log data , but I don't know how to eliminate those two lines from being proceed through the filter, please for your help for new starter with elastic , drop didn't work for me , ## .-------------------------------------------. .-------------------------------------------. Timestamp: 12/05/2017 XXXXXX .-------------------------------------------. Timestamp: 12/05/2017 XXXXXX .-------------------------------------------. .-------------------------------------------. ---
**Author:** ![Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/christian_dahlqvist/32/4617_2.png) [@Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Christian_Dahlqvist)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2018, 5:27am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/use-grok-to-skip-seperators-lines/148672/2 "2018-09-16T05:27:55Z")
Have you looked into using a `mutate` filter with a `gsub` action to simply remove the unwanted characters? ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2018, 5:28am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/use-grok-to-skip-seperators-lines/148672/3 "2018-10-14T05:28:07Z")
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