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compare cell value in a raw

sarit_s
Communicator

Hello

i have a raw with 5 columns from the same type and i want to compare the value of the cells of this 5 columns. how can i do it ?

thanks

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to4kawa
Ultra Champion

use foreach and match()

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sarit_s
Communicator

can you please explain how it will work ?

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to4kawa
Ultra Champion

see command reference

| makeresults 
| fillnull A B C D 
| eval E=1 
| foreach A B C D E 
    [ eval flag_<<FIELD>>=if(match('<<FIELD>>',"0"),"yes", "no")]
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sarit_s
Communicator

this is my query:

index="prod" eventtype="csm-messages-dhcpd-lpf-eth0-sending" OR eventtype="csm-messages-dhcpd-lpf-eth0-listening" OR eventtype="csm-messages-dhcpd-send-socket-fallback-net" OR eventtype="csm-messages-dhcpd-write-zero-leases" OR eventtype="csm-messages-dhcpd-eth1-nosubnet-declared" 
 | bin span=1s _time
 | chart count OVER _time BY eventtype
 | foreach eventtype [ eval flag=if(match('<<eventtype>>',"0"),"yes", "no")]

im getting flag "no" for every raw even if there are mismatches ..
what am i missing ?

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to4kawa
Ultra Champion

sorry, I've a mistake. I fix it.

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sarit_s
Communicator
index="prod" eventtype="csm-messages-dhcpd-lpf-eth0-sending" OR eventtype="csm-messages-dhcpd-lpf-eth0-listening" OR eventtype="csm-messages-dhcpd-send-socket-fallback-net" OR eventtype="csm-messages-dhcpd-write-zero-leases" OR eventtype="csm-messages-dhcpd-eth1-nosubnet-declared" 
| timechart span=1s count BY eventtype
| foreach eventtype
     [ eval flag_eventtype=if(match('eventtype',"0"),"yes", "no")]

still same results..

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sarit_s
Communicator

what is the 0 stand for ?

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