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Search a field for multiple values

Cheng2Ready
Communicator

I have  2 field that holds 3 values

Field 1

values= a,b,c

Field 2

values= 1,2,3


Is there a way to table

Cheng2Ready_1-1730589281900.png
without using Join/append/appendcols command?


this is how my search query looks so far but im getting this wierd results




index= example sourcetype=example1
|search "example"
|rex field=text "???<field1>"
|rex field=text "OTL<field1>"
...exisiting search query 

|appendcols

index= example sourcetype=example1
|search "example"
|rex field=text "???<field1>"
|rex field=text "OTL<field1>"
|search field1 != c
|rex field=text "<field2>"
|table field1 field2
|search field2= 1

|append
[index= example sourcetype=example1
|search "example"
|rex field=text "???<field1>"
|rex field=text "OTL<field1>"
|search field1 != a  field1 !=b 
|rex field=text "<field2>"
|table field1 field2
|search field2= 2]


the weird results I'm getting is 

Cheng2Ready_0-1730589833960.png

 



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PickleRick
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Ok. You are doing some strange things here. You're going several times over the same data extracting the same fields. You are doing negative matches. You're posting some partial search in pseudo-SPL

Just show us the source events (anonymized if need be) and describe the desired output and relation between events and output without using SPL.

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