# How to parse names like "This+is+name%2+field" in links?
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-parse-names-like-this-is-name-2-field-in-links/278858
**Category:** Logstash
**Created:** [July 16, 2021, 5:34am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-parse-names-like-this-is-name-2-field-in-links/278858 "2021-07-16T05:34:38Z")
**Posts on this page:** 10
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### Author:  [@rojin](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rojin)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2021, 5:34am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-parse-names-like-this-is-name-2-field-in-links/278858/1 "2021-07-16T05:34:38Z")
Hi! I have a name field like:
"This+is+name%2+field"
How can I parse it in logstash grok filters so that I can have:
"This is name 2 field" in Kibana?
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### Author:  [@Cad](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Cad)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2021, 12:38pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-parse-names-like-this-is-name-2-field-in-links/278858/2 "2021-07-16T12:38:37Z")
Hi,
Use gsub option of mutate filter instead
```auto
mutate {
gsub => [
"field", "[+%]", " "
]
}
```
Cad
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### Author:  [@rojin](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rojin)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2021, 1:57pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-parse-names-like-this-is-name-2-field-in-links/278858/3 "2021-07-16T13:57:23Z")
Hey, Thank you. just one more question: should I use the strip plugin to remove the extra spaces in this mutate filter?
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### Author:  [@rojin](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rojin)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2021, 1:58pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-parse-names-like-this-is-name-2-field-in-links/278858/4 "2021-07-16T13:58:17Z")
Hey, Thank you. just one more question: should I use strip plugin to remove extra spaces in this mutate filter? or should I use another filter block at the end?
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### Author:  [@Cad](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Cad)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2021, 4:51pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-parse-names-like-this-is-name-2-field-in-links/278858/5 "2021-07-16T16:51:03Z")
I don't uderstand. The current configuration of gsub adding whitespaces but you want to remove it ?
If your goal is to change this
`This+is+name%2+field`
To this
`This is name 2 fiel`
The gsub already do the job.
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### Author:  [@rojin](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rojin)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2021, 6:38pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-parse-names-like-this-is-name-2-field-in-links/278858/6 "2021-07-16T18:38:47Z")
I mean it adds a trailing space in some cases
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### Author:  [@Cad](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Cad)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2021, 1:58am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-parse-names-like-this-is-name-2-field-in-links/278858/7 "2021-07-17T01:58:58Z")
Then yes, according to the documentation, strip filter "only works on leading and trailing whitespace".
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### Author:  [@Badger](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Badger)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2021, 3:55am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-parse-names-like-this-is-name-2-field-in-links/278858/8 "2021-07-17T03:55:13Z")
If you sometimes have
```
"This+is+name%2+field+"
```
the it would make more sense to do
```auto
mutate {
gsub => [
"field", "[+%]", " ",
"field", "\s+$", ""
]
}
```
mutate+gsub does things in order.
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### Author:  [@rojin](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rojin)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2021, 5:23pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-parse-names-like-this-is-name-2-field-in-links/278858/9 "2021-07-17T17:23:32Z")
Thank you! that's better.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 14, 2021, 5:24pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-parse-names-like-this-is-name-2-field-in-links/278858/10 "2021-08-14T17:24:01Z")
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