https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/how-to-set-max-column-length/m-p/96586#M24957 <P>What is the best possible function to limit a column to not exceed a specified character count or is there a way to word wrap to the next line after it has been reached?</P> Tue, 16 Apr 2013 20:19:33 GMT aaronkorn 2013-04-16T20:19:33Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/how-to-set-max-column-length/m-p/96586#M24957 <P>What is the best possible function to limit a column to not exceed a specified character count or is there a way to word wrap to the next line after it has been reached?</P> Tue, 16 Apr 2013 20:19:33 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/how-to-set-max-column-length/m-p/96586#M24957 aaronkorn 2013-04-16T20:19:33Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/how-to-set-max-column-length/m-p/96587#M24958 <P>Yep.</P> <P>Easiest was to make it a multivalued field.</P> <PRE><CODE>... | rex field=longfield max_match=0 "(?&lt;longfield&gt;.{0,50})" </CODE></PRE> <P>that'll split longfield into lines of no more that 50 characters.</P> Tue, 16 Apr 2013 20:57:40 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/how-to-set-max-column-length/m-p/96587#M24958 jonuwz 2013-04-16T20:57:40Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/how-to-set-max-column-length/m-p/96588#M24959 <P>If you want to truncate a result column after certain length, use this...</P> <P>| eval source = if (len(source) &gt; 58, substr(source, 1, 55) + "...", source) </P> Sat, 01 Nov 2014 12:57:35 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/how-to-set-max-column-length/m-p/96588#M24959 tv5 2014-11-01T12:57:35Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/how-to-set-max-column-length/m-p/96589#M24960 <P>This is an awesome solution, but it seems to take a long time to "Finalize" the search results for a large number of returned values.</P> <P>Can we think of anything that is faster? Otherwise, it would be ideal if Splunk could just provide column width control without going to .css.</P> Tue, 10 May 2016 20:09:40 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/how-to-set-max-column-length/m-p/96589#M24960 TonyLeeVT 2016-05-10T20:09:40Z