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Concatenate fields into a single string

efelder0
Communicator

I have four fields: Signature_Name, Vendor_Signature, Incident_Detail_URL, Analyst_Assessment that I need to concatenate into one field (single string) called 'Event Detail'. Additionally, I need to append a semi-colon at the end of each field. How can this be done?

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cmerriman
Super Champion

for the issue with MV fields and concatenation, you can always use mvjoin first to get all of the Signature Names comma separated (or any other delim)

sourcetype="incident"| sort +Severity | lookup geoip clientip as SourceIP_Address| lookup subnetlookup ip as SourceIP_Address OUTPUT subnet_name AS location | eval
client_country=replace(client_country," ","") | strcat client_city ", " client_region " " client_country mylocation | eval final_location=if(mylocation==", ",location,mylocation) | rex field=final_location "(?.) (?.)"
| eval Signature_Name=mvjoin(Signature_Name,", ")
| eval Event_Detail=Signature_Name+ ";" +Vendor_Signature+ ";" +Incident_Detail_URL+ ";" +Analyst_Assessment | table CreateTimeStamp_GMT Data_Source Reference_Number SourceIP_Address SIP_Region SIP_Country Severity Incident_Category Incident_Classification Event_Detail | outputcsv SymantecReport.csv

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leonphelps_s
Path Finder

My issue ended up being a command ordering issue. Inadvertently had the eval command before the mv

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efelder0
Communicator

OK, thanks. That was helpful. However, when I have multiple values in the Signature_Name field, I get no values when I try to concatenate into the Event_Detail field.

Here is my search string:

sourcetype="incident"| sort +Severity | lookup geoip clientip as SourceIP_Address| lookup subnetlookup ip as SourceIP_Address OUTPUT subnet_name AS location | eval
client_country=replace(client_country," ","") | strcat client_city ", " client_region " " client_country mylocation | eval final_location=if(mylocation==", ",location,mylocation) | rex field=final_location "(?.) (?.)" | eval Event_Detail=Signature_Name+ ";" +Vendor_Signature+ ";" +Incident_Detail_URL+ ";" +Analyst_Assessment | table CreateTimeStamp_GMT Data_Source Reference_Number SourceIP_Address SIP_Region SIP_Country Severity Incident_Category Incident_Classification Event_Detail | outputcsv SymantecReport.csv

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leonphelps_s
Path Finder

Did you ever figure this out? "No values" when there are multiple values in the field.

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Ayn
Legend

Use eval:

... | eval Event_Detail= Signature_Name.";".Vendor_Signature.";".Incident_Detail_URL.";".Analyst_Assessment

bbingham
Builder
| eval Event_Detail=Signature_Name+";"+Vendor_Signature+";"+Incident_Detail_URL+";"+Analyst_Assessment+";"
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