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How make a string field multivalued?

pfabrizi
Path Finder

I have a event field that comes in as a string that is comma separated.
field look like https://google.con,https://Microsoft.com,https://splunk.com

In my props I have an eval:
EVAL-urls = split(urls, ",")

when searched we only see the https://google.com is the urls field.

How can I make this multivalued ?

Thanks!

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somesoni2
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pfabrizi
Path Finder

can I use a makemv in a props.conf?

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kmorris_splunk
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

Try using the makemv command. This will take a single value field with a delimited list of values and turn it into a multivalued field.

http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/7.1.1/SearchReference/Makemv

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pfabrizi
Path Finder

can I use this in a props.conf?
if so what would the command look like?

thanks!

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