# Unable to split Strings in Painless

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-split-strings-in-painless/170164>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Tags:** painless\
**Created:** [February 27, 2019, 12:29pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-split-strings-in-painless/170164 "2019-02-27T12:29:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\
**Post date:** [February 27, 2019, 1:10pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-split-strings-in-painless/170164/4 "2019-02-27T13:10:52Z")

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Ok. Please be aware that it will be slow in comparison of doing that at index time (using ingest or not).

May I ask what is your goal at the end?

Also could you provide a full recreation script as described in [About the Elasticsearch category](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/about-the-elasticsearch-category/21). It will help to better understand what you are doing. Please, try to keep the example as simple as possible.

A full reproduction script will help readers to understand, reproduce and if needed fix your problem. It will also most likely help to get a faster answer.

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