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How to create a new field using eval and display it in a table?

mdufrasne
Explorer

I am struggling to make eval work with table.
Check out the screenshot below:

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I would expect this to create a field titled Event_Detail, that it would represent the length and that they would be displayed with the table command, but that is not the case here.

I'm sure I am missing something simple.

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jpolcari
Communicator

Try placing the field name within quotes: len("logdata.processInfo.ProcessName")

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jpolcari
Communicator

Try placing the field name within quotes: len("logdata.processInfo.ProcessName")

somesoni2
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Dot (.) is a special char in eval (for concatenation) so you would need to quote it, single and double quotes both will work.

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