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Expression is malformed, eval expecting a ")"

msarro
Builder

Greetings guys.
Like my other posts today, I'm trying to find workarounds for splunk's inability to search for a literal asterisk. I am working on call detail records, in which there is a field showing the exact buttons a user pressed on their phone. For feature usage like *69, this becomes a big PITA.
For this search, the "DIALED_DIGITS" field can contain *68 or #68, one enables a feature, the other disables it.

Here is my search:

index=PHONE
|regex Dialed_Digits="(\*68|#68).*"
|eval Feature_Code=case((like(Dialed_Digits,"%68%") NOT like(Dialed_Digits,"%#68%")),"Line Feature - Enable")
|table Feature_Code

There are more feature codes to be searched for, hence using the case function. Running it returns an error stating "Error in 'eval' command: The expression is malformed. Expected )."

I have quadruple checked to make sure my syntax is correct, and have similar searches (using OR, but not NOT). I can't figure out what the issue is unless its a problem with using NOT.
Any advice would really be appreciated.

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Ayn
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You need to explicitly specify the AND condition, it isn't implicitly added automatically in eval. So, instead of "... NOT like(..." you need "... AND NOT like(..."

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Ayn
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You need to explicitly specify the AND condition, it isn't implicitly added automatically in eval. So, instead of "... NOT like(..." you need "... AND NOT like(..."

msarro
Builder

That worked, thank you

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