# Handling empty/zero values in Scripted Fields

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/handling-empty-zero-values-in-scripted-fields/89600>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [June 15, 2017, 5:51pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/handling-empty-zero-values-in-scripted-fields/89600 "2017-06-15T17:51:13Z")\
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**Post date:** [June 15, 2017, 11:16pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/handling-empty-zero-values-in-scripted-fields/89600/6 "2017-06-15T23:16:09Z")

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Ok, you'll want to do something like this then:

```auto
if(doc.containsKey('actual') && doc.containsKey('expected')) {
  // do calculation
}
else {
  // return default value
}

```

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