topic Re: How do you format code in a question comment? in #Random

How do you format code in a question comment?

lukejadamec — Fri, 22 Nov 2013 01:19:13 GMT

I'm seeing folks do it, but I don't see a format button.
If you're working in a Splunk Answers comment field, how do you format text as code?

pradeepkumarg — Fri, 22 Nov 2013 01:32:33 GMT

embed your code between pre tags < pre > < /pre >

Remove the space inside the tag when you use it.

lukejadamec — Fri, 22 Nov 2013 01:42:36 GMT

index=saywhat? sourcetype=I\sneed\sto\suse\s.*&%&%\sxml?

lukejadamec — Fri, 22 Nov 2013 01:50:54 GMT

Thanks, it

%^#!)^

worked!
Except for the *'s, what is up with that? I still have to escape them

*%^#!)*^!!!

stars!

gkanapathy — Fri, 22 Nov 2013 01:52:10 GMT

You can simply indent it 4 spaces. You can also enclose it in in backquotes, or you can use the <pre></pre> tags. Help for Markdown is here: http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax

lukejadamec — Fri, 22 Nov 2013 02:22:31 GMT

4 spaces?
%^#!)^!!!
rrr them
*%^#!)*^!!!
stars.

lukejadamec — Fri, 22 Nov 2013 02:25:49 GMT

Pooks then?
*%^#!&)*^!!!
mmm
Hoot!

lukejadamec — Fri, 22 Nov 2013 02:55:05 GMT

Thanks for the document link. It is good reading, but it is not much help unless I'm looking for a new profession.

govindsinghrawa — Thu, 06 Oct 2016 07:41:02 GMT

let me try

hello world

govindsinghrawa — Thu, 06 Oct 2016 07:41:15 GMT

Eureka!!!!

altink — Tue, 11 Apr 2017 12:11:00 GMT

didn't work for me

shartwell — Thu, 24 May 2018 23:37:14 GMT

Testing 123

shartwell — Thu, 24 May 2018 23:37:32 GMT

Testing 123

shartwell — Thu, 24 May 2018 23:37:58 GMT

Testing 123

rbechtold — Wed, 30 Sep 2020 00:12:11 GMT

test

 | rex field=raw max_match=0 "\s?(?P[A-Za-z-\]+=[^\s]+)"

cblanton — Sat, 27 Apr 2019 22:44:39 GMT

Testing 123

 code