Getting Data In

updated doc on how to handle csv's with headers

a212830
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Is there any recent doc on how Splunk imports csv files with headers? I see a lot of questions, and the answers are all over the place. This shouldn't be difficult...

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piebob
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

you mean, besides this?
http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/5.0.4/Data/Extractfieldsfromfileheadersatindextime#Examp...

as the topic mentions, CHECK_FOR_HEADER has been deprecated in 5.x, but it does work.

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