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How does punct work?

cpeteman
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NOTE: I figured that a lot of people will search "How does punct work?" and want to know. So if you were wondering: Punct info about half way down is a basic explanation.

ACTUAL QUESTION:This questions is not as easy as the title sounds. I know exactly WHAT punct does my question is where does it do it? I want to make a similar field but I cannot find the punct field extraction in manager->fields. Does anyone know how to look at this?

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lguinn2
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punct is called both an "internal" field and a "default" field. Like many other default fields, it is computed at parsing time and stored in the index. This is very different than search-time fields.

I agree with Luke; I think this is done in code as part of the parsing process. But perhaps a more knowledgeable person will chime in.

Documentation here: Use default fields

I couldn't find anything else.

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lguinn2
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punct is called both an "internal" field and a "default" field. Like many other default fields, it is computed at parsing time and stored in the index. This is very different than search-time fields.

I agree with Luke; I think this is done in code as part of the parsing process. But perhaps a more knowledgeable person will chime in.

Documentation here: Use default fields

I couldn't find anything else.

cpeteman
Contributor

"didn't think that it would make sense to be a binary"
I meant that I didn't remember that it would make more sense that way. lol

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saurabh_tek11
Communicator

@cpeteman @lukejadamec, To know more about punct you may refer to my answer here. Hope this will be of your help. Thank you - Saurabh

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cpeteman
Contributor

Good enough for me I knew it was a default field but didn't think that it would make sense to be a binary. Coolio.

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lukejadamec
Super Champion

Sounds like Splunk proprietary binary code to me.

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