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Is there a way to modify an inputlookup subsearch from an implied equals operator to an "IN" operator?

cogden
Engager

I have a subsearch doing "| inputlookup" against a CSV... the implied operator is equals. "Column/Field = Cell Value" ... is anybody aware of a way to overload or modify that operator from equals to IN. For example, if my cell value is a comma-separated list value1,value2 I dont want the search to be field="value1,value2" I would want the search to be field IN (value1,value2)

Example search:
|tstats count WHERE [inputlookup test.csv]

Example: test.csv:
mycolumn
value1,value2

Desired expanded search:
|tstats count WHERE mycolumn IN (value1,value2)

Actual expanded search:
| tstats count WHERE mycolumn="value1,value2"

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woodcock
Esteemed Legend

Use this macro:

[convert_search_from_ORs_to_IN]
definition = rename COMMENT AS "EXTREME WARNING!!! THIS IS ONLY VALID IF YOU ARE USING A SINGLE FIELD!!!!"\
| rex field=search mode=sed "s/^\(\s*\(\s*// s/\s*\)\s*\)$/)/ s/=/ IN(/ s/\s*\)\s*OR\s*\([^=]+=/,/g"
errormsg = Description: Author=Gregg Woodcock; this is necessary because if the number of characters in a search string is too great, the search may fail; this conversion saves ~50%!
iseval = 0

Then, any place where you are doing something like this:

index=foo [|inputlookup tableOfHosts | table host]

Change it to this:

index=foo [|inputlookup tableOfHosts | table host | `convert_search_from_ORs_to_IN`]
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cogden
Engager

SOLVED INTERNALLY:

Adding to the subsearch an eval split based on comma followed by an mvexpand accomplishes a similar result:

Example:

|tstats count WHERE [ | inputlookup test.csv | eval mycolumn = split(mycolumn,",") | mvexpand mycolumn ]

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