# Parsing data presented in the form of a table

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/parsing-data-presented-in-the-form-of-a-table/273143>\
**Category:** Logstash\
**Created:** [May 17, 2021, 8:37am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/parsing-data-presented-in-the-form-of-a-table/273143 "2021-05-17T08:37:41Z")\
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**Post date:** [June 23, 2021, 4:46pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/parsing-data-presented-in-the-form-of-a-table/273143/8 "2021-06-23T16:46:25Z")

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> [@San9](#):
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> Another question, I have several types of files with a different number of columns, can I somehow differentiate them among themselves by the number of columns in order to use the correct headers for each of them in the future?

See [here](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/using-ruby-to-count-the-number-of-fields-in-a-message-then-apply-csv-depending-on-the-count/177880/2) for an example.

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