topic Re: how to match string in multi value field in Splunk Search

How to match string in multi value field?

james_n — Fri, 01 Jul 2022 14:51:25 GMT

Hi experts,

I have a filed called names as shown below, if i search with first line of strings then search returning the complete filed event but not second and third line of filed strings. I used | eval names= mvfilter(names="32") and also | eval names= mvfilter(match("32", names)) but not worked for me. Please help me on this, Thanks in advance.

names
1121 - sample name
3247 - sample names
9876 - simple name

required out put: if I search with names=1121* or names=3247* or names=9876* then complete event has to be returned.i,e as i shown above.

Re: how to match string in multi value field

richgalloway — Sat, 09 May 2020 20:43:45 GMT

I think mvfind may help you.

| eval names = if ( isnull ( mvfind ( names, "32" ) ), null, names )

Re: how to match string in multi value field

james_n — Mon, 11 May 2020 04:10:37 GMT

@richgalloway thanks for the quick response, its working fine but above mentioned value(32) comes from drop down using token, the problem is when i select any value in the drop down list its working fine but if i select * which is default value of that drop down at that time shown an error. plz help on this, once again thanks.

Re: how to match string in multi value field

richgalloway — Mon, 11 May 2020 11:34:25 GMT

The second argument to mvfind (and match) must be a valid regular expression. * is not valid, but .* is. Try that.

Re: how to match string in multi value field

Senak — Fri, 01 Jul 2022 10:21:02 GMT

Hi,

Your match() syntax in just not good.
It should be

| eval names= mvfilter(match(names,"32"))