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What is the correct props.conf to ingest csv files?

spl_aficionado
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@richgalloway explained clearly in the post, that INDEXED_EXTRACTIONS=CSV makes all the fields indexed. What would be a better way to ingest CSV files and avoid the fields from being indexed?

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livehybrid
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Hi @spl_aficionado 

If you dont want to index the CSV fields then you probably want to configure an EXTRACT in props.conf and exclude the INDEXED_EXTRACTIONS so it has no value.

# props.conf
[yourSourcetype]
#Update the regex as appropriate for your CSV file
EXTRACT-myCSVExtraction = (?<field1>[^,]+),(?<field2>[^,]+),(?<field3>[^,]+)

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