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How to remove double quotes from events ?

sivakumargik
New Member

sample event

"USR_LOGIN","USR_EMP_NO","USR_LAST_NAME","USR_FIRST_NAME","USR_DISPLAY_NAME","USR_STATUS","USR_EMAIL","USR_TRANSIT","USR_EMPLOYEEMANAGER","USR_IDENTITYSECURITYID","USR_UDF_EMPLOYER","USR_EMPLOYERCODE"

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to4kawa
Ultra Champion
| makeresults 
| eval raw="\"USR_LOGIN\",\"USR_EMP_NO\",\"USR_LAST_NAME\",\"USR_FIRST_NAME\",\"USR_DISPLAY_NAME\",\"USR_STATUS\",\"USR_EMAIL\",\"USR_TRANSIT\",\"USR_EMPLOYEEMANAGER\",\"USR_IDENTITYSECURITYID\",\"USR_UDF_EMPLOYER\",\"USR_EMPLOYERCODE\"" 
| rename COMMENT AS "this is sample data" 
| makemv delim="," raw 
| mvexpand raw 
| eval tmp=1 
| xyseries tmp raw _time 
| fields - tmp 
| rename COMMENT AS "this is sample data" 
| rename \"*\" as *

I tried to remove double quotes for field names.

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mayurr98
Super Champion

the easiest way to do at index time is by using SEDCMD script:
This is run anywhere search to test the script:

| makeresults 
| eval _raw="\"USR_LOGIN\",\"USR_EMP_NO\",\"USR_LAST_NAME\",\"USR_FIRST_NAME\",\"USR_DISPLAY_NAME\",\"USR_STATUS\",\"USR_EMAIL\",\"USR_TRANSIT\",\"USR_EMPLOYEEMANAGER\",\"USR_IDENTITYSECURITYID\",\"USR_UDF_EMPLOYER\",\"USR_EMPLOYERCODE\"" 
| rex mode=sed "s/\"(\w+)\"/\1/g"

You would need to do this using CLI:

1) On the machine that runs Splunk Enterprise, create a props.conf in the $SPLUNK_HOME/etc/system/local directory. If the file already exists, proceed to the next step.
2) Open $SPLUNK_HOME/etc/system/local/props.conf with a text editor.
3) Add the following stanza to reference the transform that you created in inputs.conf to do the masking transformation.

[your_sourcetype]
SEDCMD-remove_dquotes= s/\"(\w+)\"/\1/g

Save the file and close it.
Restart Splunk Enterprise.
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rajashaey
Explorer

Hi,

please specify what to insert in Transforms.conf

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sivakumargik
New Member

Hey Mayur,

The data is already ingested. I would need to do this in search time.

and the below is just the field names but there are around 100k events with actual data in which i need to extract the data without the double quotes

"USR_LOGIN","USR_EMP_NO","USR_LAST_NAME","USR_FIRST_NAME","USR_DISPLAY_NAME","USR_STATUS","USR_EMAIL","USR_TRANSIT","USR_EMPLOYEEMANAGER","USR_IDENTITYSECURITYID","USR_UDF_EMPLOYER","USR_EMPLOYERCODE"

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to4kawa
Ultra Champion
| makeresults
| eval _raw="\"USR_LOGIN\",\"USR_EMP_NO\",\"USR_LAST_NAME\",\"USR_FIRST_NAME\",\"USR_DISPLAY_NAME\",\"USR_STATUS\",\"USR_EMAIL\",\"USR_TRANSIT\",\"USR_EMPLOYEEMANAGER\",\"USR_IDENTITYSECURITYID\",\"USR_UDF_EMPLOYER\",\"USR_EMPLOYERCODE\""
| rename COMMENT AS "this is sample data"
| eval _raw=replace(_raw,"\"","")

Hi, how about it?

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sivakumargik
New Member

the below is just the field names but there are around 100k events with actual data in which i need to extract the data without the double quotes

"USR_LOGIN","USR_EMP_NO","USR_LAST_NAME","USR_FIRST_NAME","USR_DISPLAY_NAME","USR_STATUS","USR_EMAIL","USR_TRANSIT","USR_EMPLOYEEMANAGER","USR_IDENTITYSECURITYID","USR_UDF_EMPLOYER","USR_EMPLOYERCODE"

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