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Count by start of string

kooojo
Engager

I have an query that

index ="main" |stats count by Text |sort -count | table count Text

results:

countText
10dog fish
20   dog cat

        

 

How can I change the compare that compare first X chars into Text , for example first 4 chars , so "dog fish" and "dog cat" will be 1 line?

 

countText
30dog .....

 

 

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ITWhisperer
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index ="main" |eval Text=substr(Text,1,4)|stats count by Text |sort -count | table count Text

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ITWhisperer
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index ="main" |eval Text=substr(Text,1,4)|stats count by Text |sort -count | table count Text
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kooojo
Engager

And how can I add "..." as a suffix ?

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kamlesh_vaghela
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

update Text eval

|eval Text=substr(Text,1,4)."...."

 

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