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rupeshn
Explorer

Hi,

After Extracting a field using regex. I now need to compare whether that particular field contains any command . Could you please help how to proceed further using eval,match or any other way?

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sanjeev543
Communicator

Hi,

You could write the regex to match the field values to capture the commands in your newly extracted field. See below,

| makeresults 
| eval commands="vi,cd,hello,world"
| makemv delim="," commands
| mvexpand commands
| rex field=commands "(?<abc>.*)"
| eval contains_command=if(match(abc,"vi|cd"),"Yes","No")

Here I have extracted field abc from field commands and then I used eval and simple regex using match function to identify the commands in field abc
If it's there then I will see result as yes and no respectively.

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493669
Super Champion

Hi @rupeshn,
Try below-

...| eval matches = if(match(fieldname,"command Line"), 1, 0)

If it find command line in fieldname then it will return 1 else 0

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rupeshn
Explorer

That can be any command. Can i write a regex for command in place of "command line". If yes, Could you please suggest.

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493669
Super Champion

Please provide more details on sample data and what output are you expecting

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