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spm807
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Is there an alternative to IF(<condition>, <true>, <false>) ? I ask because I've got a couple dozen conditions to get through, and nesting all these IF statements is really awkward and ugly. I'm thinking of something like a CASE WHERE kind of command. Thanks, Splunk beginner

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PrewinThomas
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@spm807 

As @gcusello  mentioned, you can use case

eg:

eval status=case(
severity="high", "Critical",
severity="medium", "Warning",
severity="low", "Info",
true(), "Unknown"
)

 

Regards,
Prewin
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PrewinThomas
Motivator

@spm807 

As @gcusello  mentioned, you can use case

eg:

eval status=case(
severity="high", "Critical",
severity="medium", "Warning",
severity="low", "Info",
true(), "Unknown"
)

 

Regards,
Prewin
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