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How can I add quotes and comma to a multivalued field?

Woodpecker
Path Finder

HI,

I have a multivalued field with values as
A
B
C
I want it to be replaced as 'A','B','C' . I tried to do it with eval mvjoin, but the first and last values misses the quote like this
A','B','C

SPL used is: 

 

index=* sourcetype=* host=abc NAME IN ("*A*","*B*","*C*") |stats values(NAME) as NAME by host
| eval NAME = mvjoin(NAME,"','")

 

Any help would be appreciated, thankyou

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ITWhisperer
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust
| eval NAME="'".mvjoin(NAME,"','")."'"

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ITWhisperer
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust
| eval NAME="'".mvjoin(NAME,"','")."'"

Woodpecker
Path Finder

This works! thankyou

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StefanoA
Explorer

You're almost there

Modify the last eval with

| eval NAME = "'".mvjoin(NAME,"','")."'"
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Woodpecker
Path Finder

Hi,

Is it possible to get values like this: (ie., double quotes instead of single quotes)

"A","B","C"

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Woodpecker
Path Finder

This works for me

| eval NAME = "\"".mvjoin(NAME,"\",\"")."\""
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