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Comparing with NULL

pm771
Communicator

Do I understand correctly that NULL is neither equal (==) nor not equal (!=) to any value? 

I know about isnull() function, but was under (apparently wrong) impression that NULL is  not equal to everything else.

Illustration:

| makeresults
| eval N=null
| eval i1=if(isnull(N), "N", "Y")
| eval i2=if(N != "Y", "N", "Y")

 

Result:

i1i2
NY

 

Is it fully documented?

 

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pm771
Communicator

What I meant was:

| makeresults
| eval i1=if(null==null, "true", "false")
| eval i2=if(null!=null, "true", "false")

 The return will be false and false

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inventsekar
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

soo, i thought to test this with integer and string..

| makeresults
| eval N="3"
| eval i1=if(N==3, "N", "Y")
| eval i2=if(N != "3", "N", "Y")

i1=N  and i2=Y 

| makeresults
| eval N=3
| eval i1=if(N==3, "N", "Y")
| eval i2=if(N != "3", "N", "Y") 

also produced the above result. 

 

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