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How to create and extract values from multivalue field ?

karthi2809
Builder

Hello to all,

I have a multivalue field with a content.errormsg with values and also with a null value. If the null value in the fields it will not showing any results in the output
example:

errormsg
closed connection
Empty String
null


needed result:

errormsg
closed connection
Empty String
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marnall
Motivator

Sure thing, you can use the mvfilter eval function to get rid of the unwanted value in the multivalue field

 

| eval yourfield = mvfilter(yourfield != "null")

ITWhisperer
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Do you mean something like this?

| eval errormsg=mvfilter(errormsg!="null")
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