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I have a message that consists of key-value pairs:
"status=BLOCKED, identifier=123422dsd13, userId=12344, name=John"
I am using | extract pairdelim=", " kvdelim="="
to extract these key-value pairs.
As an output I would like to get a 2-columns table with rows that contain key
in column1 and value
in column2:
| Key | Value |
| status | BLOCKED |
| identifier | 123422dsd13 |
| userId | 12344 |
| name | John |
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@alpsplunkuser I didn't need the kvdelim
to get it to break into key value pairs in this example, but I don't have your data, so YMMV. I think the command you're looking for is untable
. To use it in this run anywhere example below, I added a column I don't care about. Then untable
it, to get the columns you want. Then use table
to get rid of the column I don't want, leaving exactly what you were looking for.
| noop
| stats count
| eval _raw="Whatisthis=donotcare, status=BLOCKED, identifier=123422dsd13, userId=12344, name=John"
| extract pairdelim=", "
| untable Whatisthis Key Value
| table Key Value
https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/Latest/SearchReference/Untable
If this reply helps you, an upvote would be appreciated.
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@alpsplunkuser I didn't need the kvdelim
to get it to break into key value pairs in this example, but I don't have your data, so YMMV. I think the command you're looking for is untable
. To use it in this run anywhere example below, I added a column I don't care about. Then untable
it, to get the columns you want. Then use table
to get rid of the column I don't want, leaving exactly what you were looking for.
| noop
| stats count
| eval _raw="Whatisthis=donotcare, status=BLOCKED, identifier=123422dsd13, userId=12344, name=John"
| extract pairdelim=", "
| untable Whatisthis Key Value
| table Key Value
https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/Latest/SearchReference/Untable
If this reply helps you, an upvote would be appreciated.
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Try this instead
| rex field=NameOfMessageField max_match=0 "(?<Key>[^=,]+)=(?<Value>[^,]+)[, ]*"
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thanks for the reply, your approach also works to extract key-value pairs, but I am more interested in output format rather than parsing.
