How to append new row with few different values kv store?

[sivaranjiniG]

Here is my kv store lookup 

name	rating	comment	experience	subject
A	3	good	4	math
B	4	very good	7	science

now i want to append new row like this with different rating

name	rating	comment	experience	subject
A	3	good	4	math
B	4	very good	7	science
A	5	Excellent	4	math

i am trying to use 

| inputlookup table_a
      |search name="A" |eval rating=5 ,comment="Execellent" key=_key| outputlookup  append=true  key_field=key table_a

But this is not working..Please someone help me with this..

Thanks

[bowesmana]

In what way is it not working?

You are setting key_field to the key from the original record - which is what you would do if you are trying to update an existing row in the table, but you actually want to append a new row. Remove the key_field=key, but keep the append=true

[sivaranjiniG]

I tried it too.its not working

should i enable anything or add any property while creating lookup file

[bowesmana]

Are you talking about lookup files or kv stores?

Can you describe what is not 'working' and give an example of what you see when you try the commands

[sivaranjiniG]

Its KV store..

when i try to add a row its updating the existing row

example, instead of this output i am getting

name	rating	comment	experience	subject
A	3	good	4	math
B	4	very good	7	science
A	5	Excellent	4	math

this,

name	rating	comment	experience	subject
A	5	Excellent	4	math
B	4	very good	7	science

I tried these 2 solutions, I thought i dont have write access but i have i can update the  file but not able to add a new row

| inputlookup table_a
      |search name="A" |eval rating=5 ,comment="Execellent" key=_key| outputlookup  append=true  key_field=key table_a

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| inputlookup table_a
      |search name="A" |eval rating=5 ,comment="Execellent" | outputlookup  append=true table_a

[bowesmana]

You are not doing what I suggested in my first response 

Remove the key_field=_key

You are explicitly telling it to update the SAME row in KV store

[sivaranjiniG]

Please read the my previous response fully...I have tried in both ways

Anyways thanks for your response. I found a solution 

[cadrija]

@sivaranjiniG Please let us know the solution as we are facing the same task.

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