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How to Compare two fields and exclude if the values are same?

Woodpecker
Path Finder

Hi,

I have two fields: field 1 and field 2

field1        field 2

ABC           AA\ABC

DEF           DD\DEF

GHI            GG\JKL

Now I need to compare both these fields and exlcude if there is a match

So in the above case it should return only
field1         field 2
GHI             GG\JKL

Could someone help me on this, please?

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Woodpecker
Path Finder

This solved the issue 

| where '%field2'!='field1'

 

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Woodpecker
Path Finder

This solved the issue 

| where '%field2'!='field1'

 

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ITWhisperer
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust
| where NOT match(field2,field1)
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Woodpecker
Path Finder

@ITWhisperer ,
Sorry, but this not working in my case

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ITWhisperer
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Probably because your example does not adequately reflect your actual data e.g. do you have special characters which would disrupt a regex match?

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Woodpecker
Path Finder

@ITWhisperer yes..

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