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How many wildcards are used in Splunk?

itsmevic
Communicator

For example:

I know there is ... and *, both of which are used in the monitor stanza.

The * is also used in general search with SPL, but those are the only two that I know of.

Are there any others? Seems like I read somewhere that there are three total wildcards that are used, but I may be wrong.
Any feedback is greatly appreciated.

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itsmevic
Communicator

Hey there mayurr, thank you for the response. Based off your link, I"m only showing two wildcards that could be categorized as such. That is the * and then the ... . Thank you for input!

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itsmevic
Communicator

Hey there mayurr, thank you for the response. Based off your link, I"m only showing two wildcards that could be categorized as such. That is the * and then the ... . Thank you for input!

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mayurr98
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Hi,

I guess you are missing * wildcard.

This might help you:
https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/SplunkCloud/latest/Data/Specifyinputpathswithwildcards

let me know if it helps!

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