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how to avoid displaying the field which contains #?

pavanae
Builder

Hi have a field named acts which displays all the different acts with below query

base search | table acts

which displays as below

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kjhkh;jkh

hjgjh#kjhk
jhgjhyg#

Now I dont want to display any of the results which contains # in it. How can I filter them?

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somesoni2
Revered Legend

Try like this

base search | table acts | eval acts=mvfilter(NOT match(acts,"#"))

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niketn
Legend

If acts is one of your extracted fields you can filter the same in the base search itself

<Your Base Search> acts!="*#*"
| table acts
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| makeresults | eval message= "Happy Splunking!!!"
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richgalloway
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Here's one way.

base search | regex acts!="#" | table acts
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If this reply helps you, Karma would be appreciated.
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somesoni2
Revered Legend

Try like this

base search | table acts | eval acts=mvfilter(NOT match(acts,"#"))
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