# Alter vs Translate vs If/Else statements
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/alter-vs-translate-vs-if-else-statements/98466
**Category:** Logstash
**Created:** [August 27, 2017, 6:40am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/alter-vs-translate-vs-if-else-statements/98466 "2017-08-27T06:40:31Z")
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### Author:  [@neu5ron](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/neu5ron)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2017, 6:40am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/alter-vs-translate-vs-if-else-statements/98466/1 "2017-08-27T06:40:31Z")
I am trying to determine what is the fastest/most-efficient/recommendation (I was thinking of either using Translate, Alter, or just If/Else statements) for performing actions on data such as the following.
$field has values of 7,8, and 9.
7 = Log
8 = Block
9 = Bypass
\*\*\*\*The content would not be dynamic such as [https://www.elastic.co/blog/bro-ids-elastic-stack](https://www.elastic.co/blog/bro-ids-elastic-stack) where it was using a translate dictionary-path for TOR IPs.
I want to convert each "key"(integer) to its corresponding value... But as stated above, there seems to be 3 filters/options that may accomplish this.
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### Author:  [@neu5ron](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/neu5ron)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2017, 5:47pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/alter-vs-translate-vs-if-else-statements/98466/2 "2017-09-05T17:47:01Z")
I will close this..
Just going to chalk it up to I just need to test this myself by using metrics or some such.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [October 3, 2017, 5:47pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/alter-vs-translate-vs-if-else-statements/98466/3 "2017-10-03T17:47:31Z")
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