# Urldecode on kv results
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/urldecode-on-kv-results/78155
**Category:** Logstash
**Created:** [March 10, 2017, 2:22pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/urldecode-on-kv-results/78155 "2017-03-10T14:22:05Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@andre22](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/andre22)
#### Post date: [March 10, 2017, 2:22pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/urldecode-on-kv-results/78155/1 "2017-03-10T14:22:05Z")
Hi,
as hinted [here](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/newbie-question-different-numbers-of-url-parameters/77978/2) I am dividing URI query parameters into multiple fields. Is there a way to run urldecode against the resulting fields without naming them specifically in the config?
EDIT: this is the section from my config:
```
kv {
source => "uri-query"
transform_key => "lowercase"
recursive => "true"
field_split => "&?"
}
```
thank you!
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### Author:  [@magnusbaeck](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/magnusbaeck)
#### Post date: [March 10, 2017, 2:29pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/urldecode-on-kv-results/78155/2 "2017-03-10T14:29:18Z")
Have a look at the urldecode filter. I suspect you don't want to urldecode all fields (using its `all_fields` option) but if you can store the kv-extracted fields in a subfield you can point urldecode to that field and it should decode them all. If you want the fields at the top level rather than in a subfield you can use a ruby filter to move them.
Alternatively, use a ruby filter for the urldecode operation too. Then you can just loop over all fields and selectively urldecode them.
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### Author:  [@andre22](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/andre22)
#### Post date: [March 10, 2017, 2:38pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/urldecode-on-kv-results/78155/3 "2017-03-10T14:38:26Z")
Thank you Magnus.
The urldecode works well for me on individual fields. I guess this is getting a more generic question: would it be possible to include field names via wildcard? like fname1, fname2, fname3, as fname\* ?
Or, could I cascade filters, like this?
```
kv {
....
urldecode {
....
}
}
```
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### Author:  [@magnusbaeck](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/magnusbaeck)
#### Post date: [March 10, 2017, 2:39pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/urldecode-on-kv-results/78155/4 "2017-03-10T14:39:59Z")
> I guess this is getting a more generic question: would it be possible to include field names via wildcard? like fname1, fname2, fname3, as fname\* ?
I think a few filters support this but it doesn't work generally, no.
> Or, could I cascade filters, like this?
No, sorry.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [April 7, 2017, 2:40pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/urldecode-on-kv-results/78155/5 "2017-04-07T14:40:00Z")
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