# Filtering data from database **URL:** \ **Category:** Logstash\ **Created:** [November 17, 2015, 12:17pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filtering-data-from-database/34797 "2015-11-17T12:17:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![vikas.saini](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/87869e/32.png) [@vikas.saini](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/vikas.saini)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2015, 1:00pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filtering-data-from-database/34797/21 "2015-11-19T13:00:05Z")
yes exactly,i want csv filter column to pic values from array. and i have a string -name,age,country i want this string to convert into array and pass top the csv filters column . ---
**Author:** ![magnusbaeck](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/magnusbaeck/32/44943_2.png) [@magnusbaeck](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/magnusbaeck)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2015, 1:25pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filtering-data-from-database/34797/22 "2015-11-19T13:25:15Z")
This came up just a few days ago (unfortunately I can't find the old thread) but the conclusion was that there wasn't a simple way of doing this. The easiest way out might be to use the ruby filter both for finding the column names and doing the CSV parsing itself. ---
**Author:** ![vikas.saini](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/87869e/32.png) [@vikas.saini](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/vikas.saini)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2015, 2:49pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filtering-data-from-database/34797/23 "2015-11-19T14:49:37Z")
Finally got what i wanted 😃 thankyou so much magnus for your support 😌 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2017, 5:22am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filtering-data-from-database/34797/24 "2017-07-06T05:22:12Z")
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