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How to assemble a field via indirect references to other fields

dmankin
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I have logs where the these fields exist:

raw_message="Dropped table {table_name}" table_name="jobs"

and I want to add a message field that combines these (probably using eval) like so:

message="Dropped table jobs"

How can I do this for arbitrary expansions in the raw_message? i.e. I don't know the full list of "{field_name}" fields that may appear in arbitrary raw_messages.

If it helps, I can reformat raw_message at the source to use different delimiters.

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somesoni2
Revered Legend

It may not be the complete solution to your problem as your second field names are dynamic, but give this a try (runanywhere search, first line are to generate sample data)

| gentimes start=-1 | eval raw_message="Dropped table {table_name}" | table raw_message | eval table_name="jobs" 
| eval message=replace(raw_message.table_name,"^([\{]+)\{[^\}]+\}(.+)$","\1\2")
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