# Dealing with multiple number of values from the same input - Logstash

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/dealing-with-multiple-number-of-values-from-the-same-input-logstash/266101>\
**Category:** Logstash\
**Created:** [March 3, 2021, 12:17pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/dealing-with-multiple-number-of-values-from-the-same-input-logstash/266101 "2021-03-03T12:17:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![Badger](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/badger/32/25190_2.png) [@Badger](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Badger)\
**Post date:** [March 3, 2021, 7:57pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/dealing-with-multiple-number-of-values-from-the-same-input-logstash/266101/2 "2021-03-03T19:57:52Z")

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I would do something like [this](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/using-ruby-to-count-the-number-of-fields-in-a-message-then-apply-csv-depending-on-the-count/177880/2).

If all types of rows have the same fields (and FLAG2/FLAG3 rows are missing some) then you can use a single csv filter with the ignore\_empty\_columns set to true.

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