Splunk Search

Lookup against an Array

gbam
Explorer

I'm trying to run a lookup against a list of values in an array.  I have a CSV which look as follows:

idxy
123DataData2
321DataData2
456Data3Data3

 

The field from the search is is an array which looks as follows:

["123", "321", 456"]

I want to map the lookup value.  Do I need to iterate over the field or can I use a lookup or is the best option?

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tscroggins
Champion

Hi @gbam,

Splunk provides an eval function, json_array_to_mv, to convert JSON-like array values to multivalued field values. After conversion, you can use the lookup command just as you would for any other field:

| makeresults
| eval id="[\"123\", \"321\", \"456\"]"
| eval id=json_array_to_mv(id, false())
| lookup gbam_lookup.csv id
_time id x y
2023-11-10 16:14:53 123
321
456
Data
Data
Data3
Data2
Data2
Data3

 

Index 0 of multivalued field id corresponds to index 0 of multivalued fields x and y, index 1 corresponds to index 1, etc.

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