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How to escape the percent character (%) when using the like function?

IVV
Path Finder

Hello!

I use the like function as a part of search to exclude src_ip values which contain the "%" character.

NOT like(src_ip, "%\%%")

But escaping doesn't work. How can I escape it properly?

Thanks.

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somesoni2
Revered Legend

I would suggest to use 'match' function instead of LIKE here.

example usage: (Runanywhere sample search)

| gentimes start=-1 | eval temp="Somesh%Soni Somesh#Soni" | table temp | makemv temp | mvexpand temp | where NOT match(temp,".*%.*")

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somesoni2
Revered Legend

I would suggest to use 'match' function instead of LIKE here.

example usage: (Runanywhere sample search)

| gentimes start=-1 | eval temp="Somesh%Soni Somesh#Soni" | table temp | makemv temp | mvexpand temp | where NOT match(temp,".*%.*")

IVV
Path Finder

Thank you. It works.

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fdi01
Motivator

the src_ip values are like this : xx.zz.dd.hh exple( src_ip=127.0.0.1)
try like this:
NOT like(src_ip, "127.%.%.%")
or
NOT like(src_ip, "%.%.%.%")

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IVV
Path Finder

Sorry, it doesn't solve the problem. And in my case src_ip is both IPv4 and IPv6.

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