Splunk Search

Macro with a macro-name-argument

SonnyB
Explorer

Can a macro be defined, that takes another string as the name of the macro, which gets ‘eval’ed first based on the eventdata, to yield a set of dynamic arguments, which the hosting-macro finally uses as its real arguments, to transform them and/or derive some result, which can then be fed back into the sourcing eventdata itself as a new-field, which can then be used in the next segment of the original search-pipeline?

0 Karma

woodcock
Esteemed Legend

Yes, you can pass a macroname as an argument to one macro and have the called macro call the passed-in macro.

0 Karma

Ayn
Legend

Care to make that question a bit more readable and possible to follow? 🙂

0 Karma
Got questions? Get answers!

Join the Splunk Community Slack to learn, troubleshoot, and make connections with fellow Splunk practitioners in real time!

Meet up IRL or virtually!

Join Splunk User Groups to connect and learn in-person by region or remotely by topic or industry.

Get Updates on the Splunk Community!

[Puzzles] Solve, Learn, Repeat: Character substitutions with Regular Expressions

This challenge was first posted on Slack #puzzles channelFor BORE at .conf23, we had a puzzle question which ...

Splunk Community Badges!

  Hey everyone! Ready to earn some serious bragging rights in the community? Along with our existing badges ...

[Puzzles] Solve, Learn, Repeat: Matching cron expressions

This puzzle (first published here) is based on matching timestamps to cron expressions.All the timestamps ...