Getting Data In

Ignore first line

aleem
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Hi,
I am importing custom CSV files. The heading are are the first line. What is the simplest way to ignore these headings? Which files to I need to edit?

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lguinn2
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Take a look at this question, which is quite close to yours.

How to ignore the title line of the csv file in the result and display in a kv format

I don't think that the CHECK_FOR_HEADER = true suggestion will work, but the solution that uses a TRANSFORM will.

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lguinn2
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If you tell Splunk that the sourcetype of the file is "csv", I believe Splunk will take care of that for you, as well as extracting the fields.

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aleem
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Thanks, I tried that. Splunk recognises sourcetype as csv-2 and still indexes the headings

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