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How do I use regular expressions to populate a new field if the regular expression is true?

russell120
Communicator

Here's an example of my CSV with 10s of thousand of rows:

device      ID
phone  [APPLE]1234
phone  [ANDROID]0987
phone  [ANDROID]4466
phone  [APPLE]9922

How do I use the regex command to look in the ID field and populate a new field called newField1 with a value of eligiblePhone if the ID value contains [APPLE]; and to also populate a new field called newField2 with a value of ineligiblePhone if the ID value contains [ANDROID]?

The result would look like the below:

device      ID            newField1       newField2
phone  [APPLE]1234      eligiblePhone
phone  [ANDROID]0987                    ineligiblePhone
phone  [ANDROID]4466                    ineligiblePhone
phone  [APPLE]9922      eligiblePhone

Thank you!

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dmarling
Builder

The match command in an eval statement will accomplish this:

| eval newField1=if(match(ID, "APPLE"), "eligiblePhone", null())
| eval newField2=if(match(ID, "ANDROID"), "ineligiblePhone", null())

The documentation for that can be found here: https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/6.6.6/SearchReference/ConditionalFunctions#match.28SUBJ...

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dmarling
Builder

The match command in an eval statement will accomplish this:

| eval newField1=if(match(ID, "APPLE"), "eligiblePhone", null())
| eval newField2=if(match(ID, "ANDROID"), "ineligiblePhone", null())

The documentation for that can be found here: https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/6.6.6/SearchReference/ConditionalFunctions#match.28SUBJ...

If this comment/answer was helpful, please up vote it. Thank you.
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russell120
Communicator

This works, thanks!

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