# How do you do multiple "OR"s in a filter?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-do-you-do-multiple-or-s-in-a-filter/208922>\
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**Created:** [November 21, 2019, 3:55pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-do-you-do-multiple-or-s-in-a-filter/208922 "2019-11-21T15:55:01Z")\
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**Post date:** [November 21, 2019, 3:58pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-do-you-do-multiple-or-s-in-a-filter/208922/2 "2019-11-21T15:58:54Z")

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> [@meatwad](#):
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> if "(foo|bar|foobar)" in [message] {

Try

```
if [message] =~ "(foo|bar|foobar)" {

```

"in" does array membership testing and substring matching. =~ does regexp matching.

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