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concatenating more than one field

abhayneilam
Contributor

Hi,

I have three fields :

field1 field2 field3
delhi
delhi
kol
delhi mumbai

delhi kol

mumbai kolkata andhra

Output should be like :

Final_Field
delhi
delhi
kol
delhi,mumbai
delhi,kol
mumbai,kolkata,andhra

Please help !!

Thanks

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yannK
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

use an eval to concatenate the fields, and in the case a field is missing, use a sed command to remove the extra separation commas.

mysearch | fillnull value="" field1 field2 field3 | eval myfield=field1.",".field2.",".field3 | rex field=myfield mode=sed "s/([,]*)}/,/g" | table myfield

remark : sed command not tested, please try or replace by some logic in the eval.

yannK
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

Thanks Kristian, the fillnull is required indeed, let me add it.

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kristian_kolb
Ultra Champion

Thats what one would like to think, but if either of the fields is missing altogether, the eval fails.

You'd have to use fillnull or similar first.

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