# Wildcard in conditionals?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/wildcard-in-conditionals/37016>\
**Category:** Logstash\
**Created:** [December 11, 2015, 8:06pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/wildcard-in-conditionals/37016 "2015-12-11T20:06:50Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![CraigFoote](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/craigfoote/32/4571_2.png) [@CraigFoote](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/CraigFoote)\
**Post date:** [December 11, 2015, 8:06pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/wildcard-in-conditionals/37016/1 "2015-12-11T20:06:50Z")

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Is this legal?

```
output{
    if "*error*" in [tags] or "*failure*" in [tags]{
        stdout{ codec => rubydebug }
    }
    else{
        # index in ES
    }
}
```

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**Author:** ![vtst2412](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/vtst2412/32/6228_2.png) [@vtst2412](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/vtst2412)\
**Post date:** [December 12, 2015, 1:00am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/wildcard-in-conditionals/37016/2 "2015-12-12T01:00:20Z")

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Did you try it?

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2017, 5:18am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/wildcard-in-conditionals/37016/3 "2017-07-06T05:18:46Z")

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