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How to choose one field value out of two ?

rakeshksingh
New Member

Hi All,

If a field has two values but I want to pick only one. Could you please suggest me with the help of which command I can do that ?

just as say
Field A= B,C

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cpetterborg
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Try something like this:

| makeresults | eval _raw="A=B,C" | rex "A=(?P<val>\S+)" | makemv delim="," val | eval choice=mvindex(val,1), not=mvindex(val,0)

You will have to provide your search, but the use of mvindex is what you want to see.

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