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Find line number of search string in multiline event

snoobzilla
Builder

I have multiline events and I need to identify which line number a search string appears in. Preferred would be a solution that avoids breaking entire event into multivalue fields.

e.g. this would return 4
blah blah
blah blah
blah blah
what I want to know line number of
blah blah
blah blah
blah blah

this would return 2
blah blah
what I want to know line number of
blah blah
blah blah
blah blah
blah blah

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snoobzilla
Builder

I ended up going with multivalue field solution and mvfind/mvindex solution for this. Expensive but worked.

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snoobzilla
Builder

I ended up going with multivalue field solution and mvfind/mvindex solution for this. Expensive but worked.

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alon7786
New Member

Can you publish your solution please

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