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Adding Characters to the beginning of a field only when field starts with "\"
Hi
I have a search that returns a field called "Administrators"
Administrators
\DomainAdmins
\Backup Group
\Eventlog Administrators
user1
user2
for every entry that has a \ at the beginning I would like to put the word "Domain"
Domain\DomainAdmins
Domain\Backup Group
Domain\Eventlog Administrators
user1
user2
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Hi what would the new search look like?
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In @nickhillscpl's answer, replace first * with whatever search you've right now. Just add that | eval administrator... to end of your search.
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can you provide the search you are using now?
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This should work for you:
*|eval administrators=if(match(administrators, "^\\\.+"), "Domain".administrators, administrators)|table administrators
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I get no results found with that
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whats your starting search?
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Probably want to put a carat ^ at the start of that, so it only matches at the beginning of the string.
"Match" returns true if the REGEX can find a match against any substring of SUBJECT.
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good point. edited.
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