https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/Limit-length-of-field-of-characters-in-search-results/m-p/134908#M36872 <P>Hello,</P> <P>Is there a way to limit the length of a field in a search result to X number of characters? </P> <P>I.E. return only the first 15 characters of a field in a search result?</P> <P>The reason I ask is because I have a few dashboard panels with fields that are excessively long and they cause the other fields to be out of view (have to scroll to the right to view them).</P> <P>Thanks!</P> Fri, 08 Nov 2013 17:22:44 GMT echojacques 2013-11-08T17:22:44Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/Limit-length-of-field-of-characters-in-search-results/m-p/134908#M36872 <P>Hello,</P> <P>Is there a way to limit the length of a field in a search result to X number of characters? </P> <P>I.E. return only the first 15 characters of a field in a search result?</P> <P>The reason I ask is because I have a few dashboard panels with fields that are excessively long and they cause the other fields to be out of view (have to scroll to the right to view them).</P> <P>Thanks!</P> Fri, 08 Nov 2013 17:22:44 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/Limit-length-of-field-of-characters-in-search-results/m-p/134908#M36872 echojacques 2013-11-08T17:22:44Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/Limit-length-of-field-of-characters-in-search-results/m-p/134909#M36873 <P>You can use eval-substr for the same. example</P> <PRE><CODE>your search....|eval yourfield=substr(yourfield,1,15) </CODE></PRE> <P>This will give first 15 character for yourfield's value.</P> Fri, 08 Nov 2013 17:32:25 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/Limit-length-of-field-of-characters-in-search-results/m-p/134909#M36873 somesoni2 2013-11-08T17:32:25Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/Limit-length-of-field-of-characters-in-search-results/m-p/134910#M36874 <P>This works perfectly, thank you!</P> Fri, 08 Nov 2013 17:41:32 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/Limit-length-of-field-of-characters-in-search-results/m-p/134910#M36874 echojacques 2013-11-08T17:41:32Z