# How to get multi valued field values in painless **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [September 6, 2018, 10:58am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-get-multi-valued-field-values-in-painless/147554 "2018-09-06T10:58:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![chandrapraba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eb8c5e/32.png) [@chandrapraba](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/chandrapraba)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2018, 10:58am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-get-multi-valued-field-values-in-painless/147554/1 "2018-09-06T10:58:23Z")
Hi, I'm new to Elastic Search and Painless. I have a field in my index which has multiple values as shown below. FieldName Language Value "Computer Science" In painless, When i try to get the value of this field as doc['Language'] - It returns value as ["Computer", "Science"] which is an array. Is there a option where i can get the value as string than Array? Thanks for the help! ---
**Author:** ![rjernst](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/rjernst/32/6363_2.png) [@rjernst](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rjernst)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2018, 5:23pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-get-multi-valued-field-values-in-painless/147554/2 "2018-09-06T17:23:57Z")
This will depend on how the mapping of the field is setup. If you don't want the value to be tokenized, set the field type to `keyword`. However, `doc['Language']` will always return a List. You can either just access the first value using `[0]`, or use `.value`. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2018, 5:29pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-get-multi-valued-field-values-in-painless/147554/3 "2018-10-04T17:29:33Z")
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