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Strange behavior of values function

emzed
Path Finder

Is there anyone who can explain me strange behaivor of "values" function. I created statistic by "stats" with "values" function and it returned mvfield as I expected, but there was in one line where values in mvfield were separated by comma not by newline. I attached a screenshot of this.

I tested on Splunk 8.2.7 and 9.0.0.

If I replace colon in field "source" by something else, the behavior change.

Search_ Splunk_8.2.7.png

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PickleRick
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Yes, there is some problem with displaying mvfields and it manifests itself from time to time in this weird way in the ui.

Try adding something like

| eval c=mvcount(data) | eval first=mvindex(data,1)

It should still work properly, returning a count of 3 and your first value from that field.

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emzed
Path Finder

Thank you for your reply. I think it is not for first time when I have seen it. There must be some small bug. I know that field is still mvfield and it behaves like that.

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ITWhisperer
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

(: is the start of a construct in regex so perhaps this is the source of the issue. Try changing the replace to use (\:

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emzed
Path Finder

I tried the change and It does not help. You can se on first screenshot.Search_ Splunk_8.2.7_1.png

You were right that the trigger could be the colon. If I remove the ":" from field and calculate the stat then all mvfield displayed the same way.
Search_ Splunk_8.2.7_2.png

It doesn't completely solve my problem. 

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