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How do you split two string values joined in one field?

mdmaala
Communicator

hi!

Under the field Username, I have two lists, Machine1 and Machine2

I want to split this into two separate columns Machine 1 and Machine2

how can I do this? Thanks!

I tried using my search...| rex field=Username "(?Machine1)(?Machine2)", but it's not working.

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woodcock
Esteemed Legend

Like this:

... | eval Machine1 = mvindex(Username, 0), Machine2 = mvindex(Username, 1)
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spavin
Path Finder

Can you give us a sample field to work with? Does it look like: Machine 1 Machine 2?

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mdmaala
Communicator

the table looks like this:

| Username |
Machine 1
Machine 2

I want to separate the username field into Machine1 and Machine2

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