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Macro optimization

chlima
Explorer

Hi,

I've created a macro to convert IPv6 (IP field) to IPv4 connotation (Ex: 0000000000000000000000FFFF0a0a0a0a > 10.10.10.10)

Is that:

| eval a=tonumber(substr(IP,25,2))
| eval a=tonumber(substr(IP,27,2))
| eval a=tonumber(substr(IP,29,2))
| eval a=tonumber(substr(IP,31,2))
| IP = a+"."+b+"."+c+"."+d

Someone know another method more efficient to do it optimizing the macro execution?

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woodcock
Esteemed Legend

You can swap 4 substr commands with a single rex command and that should be very much quicker like this:

| rex field=32BitIP "(?i)(?<JuNkT3Mp_1>[0-9A-F]{2})(?<JuNkT3Mp_2>[0-9A-F]{2})(?<JuNkT3Mp_3>[0-9A-F]{2})(?<JuNkT3Mp_4>[0-9A-F]{2})"
| eval IP = tostring(tonumber(JuNkT3Mp_1,16)) . "."
          . tostring(tonumber(JuNkT3Mp_2,16)) . "." 
          . tostring(tonumber(JuNkT3Mp_3,16)) . "."
          . tostring(tonumber(JuNkT3Mp_4,16))
| fields - JuNkT3Mp*

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woodcock
Esteemed Legend

You can swap 4 substr commands with a single rex command and that should be very much quicker like this:

| rex field=32BitIP "(?i)(?<JuNkT3Mp_1>[0-9A-F]{2})(?<JuNkT3Mp_2>[0-9A-F]{2})(?<JuNkT3Mp_3>[0-9A-F]{2})(?<JuNkT3Mp_4>[0-9A-F]{2})"
| eval IP = tostring(tonumber(JuNkT3Mp_1,16)) . "."
          . tostring(tonumber(JuNkT3Mp_2,16)) . "." 
          . tostring(tonumber(JuNkT3Mp_3,16)) . "."
          . tostring(tonumber(JuNkT3Mp_4,16))
| fields - JuNkT3Mp*
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lguinn2
Legend

Why not

IP = tonumber(substr(IP,25,2),16) . "." . tonumber(substr(IP,27,2),16) . "." . tonumber(substr(IP,29,2),16) . "." . tonumber(substr(IP,31,2),16)

although I have no idea if that will actually be faster. It will work, because you have to specify the "16" to get it to convert from hex.

(edited to fix the problem mentioned in the comments - replaced "+" with ".", which is concatenation)

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woodcock
Esteemed Legend

4 passes to substr vs. 1 pass to rex in mine (should be 4x faster)

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chlima
Explorer

Thanks for the answer lguinn, but it's returning an error.

Error in 'eval' command: Typechecking failed. '+' only takes two strings or two numbers.

So it that i've defined four variables (a,b,c,d).

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