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DB connect: how to set quotes around field results

norbert_hamel
Communicator

Hi all,

I am using DB connect to retrieve a list of user accounts from a database.
The extract is running as expected, but the username sometimes contain commas:

Username=Lastname,Firstname

This will cause Splunk to read only the first part of the user name to the field "Username".

Is there a way to place the results of my query in quotes to achieve this:

Username="Lastname,Firstname" ?

Thanks
Norbert

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martin_mueller
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Have you tried the multi-line key-value output format?

If all else fails you should be able to specify a manual template as the output format, and include quotes explicitly:

... Username="$user_column$" ...

That may be tedious for a large number of columns of course.

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martin_mueller
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Great :slightly_smiling_face:
I have converted the comment to an answer so you can mark it as solved.

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norbert_hamel
Communicator

Cool, I have used the template, now I have exactly what I was looking for.
Greetings to the north! :slightly_smiling_face:

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martin_mueller
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Have you tried the multi-line key-value output format?

If all else fails you should be able to specify a manual template as the output format, and include quotes explicitly:

... Username="$user_column$" ...

That may be tedious for a large number of columns of course.

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