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Why do I see strange characters in Splunk events?
dahlberg
New Member
05-15-2017
12:45 PM
I'm looking over an XML log and in the Splunk viewer there are events with long strings of the following:
'\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00'
I can't seem to find this string and/or key combination anywhere within the actual raw log files. Any idea why this might be?
Thanks,
Mike
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aakwah
Builder
05-15-2017
02:09 PM
Hello,
This usually happens when there are hidden .swp files created while you are opening the files by an editor.
Regards
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ddrillic
Ultra Champion
05-15-2017
02:06 PM
Maybe the following can help - Why are some of the events garbled with "\x00"?
