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How do I use MV_ADD to split raw strings with pipe separated values into multivalue fields?

gesman
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I have data like this:

one_field="value_a|value_b|value_c", other_field="value_x|value_y"

How can I instruct MV_ADD to convert fields within such data to multivalue fields including auto-splitting value at '|'?

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gesman
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Apparently I don't even need MV_ADD, this solution seems to work:

Adding this to ./etc/system/local/fields.conf:

[one_field]
TOKENIZER = ([^\|]+)

[other_field]
TOKENIZER = ([^\|]+)

Ideally though I'd love to limit such transformation to specific sourcetype or index, instead of doing it globally. Not sure it's possible with fields.conf-based solution.

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