When looking at some real-world rule bases for liblognorm, I noticed that it is often required to check for the presence of a specific field, but the value is actually not needed. This leads to fields named e.g. “filler”, “dummy”, “dummy<n>” with n being an increasing number. This is both clumsy and requires unnecessary processing power. For that reason, I have introduced “-” (dash) as field name. When this special name is used, the field as parsed as usual, but immediately discarded after the successful parse. So while we need to parse and extract in order to get the parse logic right, we save the effort to keep a copy of this unneeded data. This also means that output log records produced by the normalizer tool are cleaned up. I hope this is a useful addition.