zcwang, An example of the item in question would make this easier, but I'll try: Any of the delimiter characters you specify will be considered a delimiter. The docs for transforms.conf provides an example of this [multiple_delims] DELIMS = "|;", "=:" Which they describe as The above example extracts key-value pairs which are separated by '|' or ';', while the key is delimited from value by '=' or ':'. So that would use either | or ; for the field separators and either one of = or : as the field=value separator. This would match log lines like |field1=val1;field2=val2|field3:val3;field4=val4; and pull out of them field1=val1 field2=val2 field3=val3 field4=val4 ... View more