# Pattern match on record field values

**URL:** <https://discourse.elm-lang.org/t/pattern-match-on-record-field-values/7724>\
**Category:** Learn\
**Created:** [August 31, 2021, 5:23pm UTC](https://discourse.elm-lang.org/t/pattern-match-on-record-field-values/7724 "2021-08-31T17:23:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![allanderek](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/discourse.elm-lang.org/allanderek/32/1360_2.png) [@allanderek](https://discourse.elm-lang.org/u/allanderek)\
**Post date:** [September 3, 2021, 8:15am UTC](https://discourse.elm-lang.org/t/pattern-match-on-record-field-values/7724/5 "2021-09-03T08:15:54Z")

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I’ve wanted [‘or-patterns’](https://discourse.elm-lang.org/t/language-proposal-introduce-or-patterns/2664) for a long time, it’s one of the “quite a few” that I mentioned above.

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