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Capitalize the first character of a string value using eval or field format?

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How can I capitalize the first character of some string values using one of the eval or fieldformat operators?

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Ayn
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Off the top of my head (I have no Splunk instance to try this on at the moment), this should do it:

... | eval myfield = upper(substr(myfield,1,1)).substr(myfield,2)

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Ayn
Legend

Off the top of my head (I have no Splunk instance to try this on at the moment), this should do it:

... | eval myfield = upper(substr(myfield,1,1)).substr(myfield,2)

scentoni_splunk
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

Try this

| eval myfield = upper(substr(myfield,1,1)).lower(substr(myfield,2))
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