# Can we use clone filter within ruby code block?
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-we-use-clone-filter-within-ruby-code-block/2411
**Category:** Logstash
**Created:** [June 11, 2015, 6:50am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-we-use-clone-filter-within-ruby-code-block/2411 "2015-06-11T06:50:50Z")
**Posts on this page:** 10
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### Author:  [@Saket\_Kumar](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Saket_Kumar)
#### Post date: [June 11, 2015, 6:50am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-we-use-clone-filter-within-ruby-code-block/2411/1 "2015-06-11T06:50:50Z")
can we use clone filter within ruby code block?
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### Author:  [@magnusbaeck](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/magnusbaeck)
#### Post date: [June 11, 2015, 6:55am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-we-use-clone-filter-within-ruby-code-block/2411/2 "2015-06-11T06:55:40Z")
I don't think you can call filters from within other filters. If you explain what you're trying to accomplish maybe someone can suggest something that you _can_ do.
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### Author:  [@Saket\_Kumar](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Saket_Kumar)
#### Post date: [June 11, 2015, 7:05am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-we-use-clone-filter-within-ruby-code-block/2411/3 "2015-06-11T07:05:47Z")
I parsed xml
input {
file {
path =\> "/opt/Log/new80.xml"
start\_position =\> "beginning"
}
}
filter {
if [message] =~ "^\ "^\"
negate =\> true
what =\> "next"
}
xml {
source =\> "message"
target =\> "videoFrames"
```
xpath => [
#"response/data/latency","latency",
"/response/data/run/firstView/videoFrames/frame[*]/time/text()","Time_FV",
"/response/data/run/firstView/videoFrames/frame[*]/image/text()","Image_FV",
"/response/data/run/firstView/videoFrames/frame[*]/VisuallyComplete/text()","Progess_FV",
```
Getting output for "Time\_FV": [0,800,1600,1800,2100,2400,3000,3300,3500,3600,3700]
I want to split this array into multiple event and output to elasticsearch. Hence thought of cloning for each item in array.
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### Author:  [@magnusbaeck](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/magnusbaeck)
#### Post date: [June 11, 2015, 7:19am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-we-use-clone-filter-within-ruby-code-block/2411/4 "2015-06-11T07:19:41Z")
If the [split filter](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/logstash/current/plugins-filters-split.html) isn't usable for this I think it should be. Worst case, could you use a ruby filter to turn the Time\_FV field into a string that you then feed to the split filter?
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### Author:  [@Saket\_Kumar](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Saket_Kumar)
#### Post date: [June 11, 2015, 8:14am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-we-use-clone-filter-within-ruby-code-block/2411/5 "2015-06-11T08:14:37Z")
do i need to clone event?
How split works?
i will try as suggested above.
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### Author:  [@Saket\_Kumar](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Saket_Kumar)
#### Post date: [June 11, 2015, 8:26am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-we-use-clone-filter-within-ruby-code-block/2411/6 "2015-06-11T08:26:54Z")
If i use
split { field =\> "Time\_FV" }
what output expected.
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### Author:  [@Saket\_Kumar](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Saket_Kumar)
#### Post date: [June 11, 2015, 8:31am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-we-use-clone-filter-within-ruby-code-block/2411/7 "2015-06-11T08:31:05Z")
this worked great help.
Can I apply split { on multiple fields}?
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### Author:  [@magnusbaeck](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/magnusbaeck)
#### Post date: [June 11, 2015, 10:22am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-we-use-clone-filter-within-ruby-code-block/2411/8 "2015-06-11T10:22:24Z")
> Can I apply split { on multiple fields}?
With multiple split filters, sure.
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### Author:  [@Saket\_Kumar](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Saket_Kumar)
#### Post date: [June 11, 2015, 10:23am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-we-use-clone-filter-within-ruby-code-block/2411/9 "2015-06-11T10:23:36Z")
tried but didn't get success.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2017, 5:37am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-we-use-clone-filter-within-ruby-code-block/2411/10 "2017-07-06T05:37:44Z")