https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Splitting-events-every-n-characters/m-p/22194#M3368 <P>Hi, </P> <P>ist it possible to split events in a file based on a position? I have a file that has fixed width events of 200 chars and would like to index them as single events into Splunk. </P> <P>Thanks</P> <P>Chris</P> Thu, 02 May 2013 12:50:51 GMT chris 2013-05-02T12:50:51Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Splitting-events-every-n-characters/m-p/22194#M3368 <P>Hi, </P> <P>ist it possible to split events in a file based on a position? I have a file that has fixed width events of 200 chars and would like to index them as single events into Splunk. </P> <P>Thanks</P> <P>Chris</P> Thu, 02 May 2013 12:50:51 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Splitting-events-every-n-characters/m-p/22194#M3368 chris 2013-05-02T12:50:51Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Splitting-events-every-n-characters/m-p/22195#M3369 <P>You can specify this in the sourcetype definition in props.conf:</P> <PRE><CODE>LINE_BREAKER=.{200}() SHOULD_LINEMERGE=0 </CODE></PRE> Thu, 02 May 2013 13:45:29 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Splitting-events-every-n-characters/m-p/22195#M3369 martin_mueller 2013-05-02T13:45:29Z