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Need help stopping Splunk Answers from reformatting data

bradj013 — Sat, 02 Jan 2016 20:40:58 GMT

I am trying to post a question in Splunk Answers that contains odd line numbers and some backslashes. For example:

2.4 First line
2.5 Second line
2.6 Third line

I typed "2.4 First line", "2.5 Second line", "2.6 Third line" and the forum is rounding my numbers (according to the preview). I also have some data that has odd character sequences in it and the forum is breaking it up and putting part of it in a box. I guess in am looking for a text only mode with no fancy formatting or numbering.

Re: Need help stopping Splunk Answers from reformatting data

richgalloway — Sat, 02 Jan 2016 22:00:52 GMT

The forum is similar to a wiki page in that it tries to format the text for easy reading based on what you type. Obviously, it's not getting it right. See https://answers.splunk.com/static/markdown/help.html for how what you type affects the formatting. To prevent format changes, put your text into a code box by highlighting and then clicking the "101010" icon.

Re: Need help stopping Splunk Answers from reformatting data

jkat54 — Mon, 18 Apr 2016 22:42:08 GMT

@ppablo_splunk